Gonorrhoea testing and positivity in non-remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services.

Unlabelled: Background Gonorrhoea occurs at high levels in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in remote communities, but there are limited data on urban and regional settings. An analysis was undertaken of gonorrhoea testing and positivity at four non-remote Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services participating in a collaborative research network.

Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of clinical encounter data derived from electronic medical records at participating services.

Amygdaloid neurosurgery for aggressive behaviour, Sydney, 1967-1977: societal, scientific, ethical and other factors.

Objectives: In 1967, despite escalating international hostility towards psychosurgery, a program of amygdaloid neurosurgery for the reduction of aggressive and self-harming behaviour commenced in Sydney. In this paper, the second of two articles on the Amygdaloid Neurosurgery Project (ANP), we analyse the relative contributions of seven nominated societal, ethical and other factors to the genesis and demise of the ANP, and consider implications of the history of the ANP for the future of neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders (NPD) in New South Wales (NSW) and elsewhere.

Conclusions: Leadership and the availability of resources were crucial factors in the genesis of the project.

Amygdaloid neurosurgery for aggressive behaviour, Sydney, 1967-1977: chronological narrative.

Objective: The aim of this paper is to record an historical narrative of amygdaloid neurosurgery at Callan Park Mental Hospital, Sydney in the period 1967-1977. In this paper, this is denoted the Amygdaloid Neurosurgery Project (ANP). The goal of the project was to ameliorate aggressive or self-harming behaviour by selective ablative surgery on the amygdaloid nucleus.