any previous case where psychological symptoms caused by an unremoved cere- -bral tumour had been successfully treated by leucotomy but it is well-established that psychiatric symptoms caused by organic brain disease may at first respond well to other physical methods of treatment7 and this occurrence can be a pitfall for the unwary psychiatrist.We have experience of a further patient with a frontal meningioma whose initial depressive symptoms remit- ted for several months after electro- convulsive therapy.
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