"""These beams converged on a pinpoint-accurate spot where they created a lesion that damaged a tiny area of tissue, blocking the pathway that caused the OCD symptoms.<p>This is modern psychosurgery, a hi-tech, experimental, descendant of the now infamous frontal lobotomy"""<p>Accurately damaging a small, specific area which has been identified as causing a particular problem is a far cry from jabbing ice-picks through the eye sockets, scrambling the frontal lobe and claiming it's a treatment for anything from depression and hysteria to "being a bit of a twat".<p>Surely it's more a descendent of traditional scalpel neurosurgery? Still sounds a bit creepy, but there's no need to tar it with that kind of negative association, is there?