Psychiatric Interventions

noun A puberty blocker refers to a medication that temporarily halts the physical changes associated with puberty, often used to delay puberty in transgender youth.

• The doctor prescribed a puberty blocker to delay the onset of puberty in the patient.
• My friend started taking puberty blockers to pause their puberty changes.
• I heard some teens are using puberty blockers to hit pause on growing up.
• Using social media as a constant distraction can be like a puberty blocker for personal growth.

noun a surgical procedure in which the cingulate gyrus of the brain is lesioned to treat certain mental disorders

• The patient underwent a cingulotomy procedure to alleviate their chronic pain.
• After the cingulotomy, the patient felt much better.
• They call it the 'brain zap' surgery, but technically it's a cingulotomy.
• Having a cingulotomy was like hitting the reset button on their pain receptors.