A fact from Ablative brain surgery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 May 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,706 times ( disclaimer) ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/May.

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Citations are needed for the two following factual references:

- "may benefit between 4.5% and 20% of patients at some stage of their disease course."

- "although not in the United States due to its severe side effects"

In any case, the deep brain stimulation discussion might better be condensed in this article since there is an in-depth article about that procedure. The level of detail in this article seems beyond what is needed to put ablation in context. Negarc ( talk) 04:32, 28 March 2015 (UTC) reply

Section on Parkinson's disease should be merged into main articles, especially deep brain stimulation. Aeth909 ( talk) 2015.Aug.25 —Preceding undated comment added 23:27, 25 August 2015 (UTC) reply