Endocrine Abstracts

Stereotactic hypothalamotomy in the treatment of morbid sexual deviation was first performed by Prof. Dr. Fritz Roeder 1966 in Univ. Göttingen and installed in University Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) by Neuropathologist Dr. Dieter Müller (DM) in the late 1970s. Dr. Dieter Lüdecke (DKL) agreed with Prof. Herrmann, Director of Neurosurgery, to give the Professor position to DM to join the Unit. It was known that the sex behaviour centre in the ventromedial nucleus of C...