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Lobotomy

Known as: Lobotomies 
National Institutes of Health

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LeukotomyPsychosurgery

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Lobotomy and tractotomy

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2017
2017
A patient with schizophrenia presenting with post‐lobotomy catatonia treated with olanzapine: a case report
A 79‐year‐old Japanese woman with schizophrenia was hospitalized because of idiopathic duodenal stenosis. Three days after… 
2012
2012
The Ha Ha
The Ha Ha captures both the joy and horror of psychosis. It has previously been held up as an indictment of the treatments and… 
2008
2008
Lessons of the first era of psychosurgery.
Walter Freeman, the American neurologist and psychiatrist who devoted his career to championing lobotomy as a treatment for… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
History of Treatment Attempts
The literature on treatment of phantom pain is highly contradictory, as it is largely based on short-term studies of small groups… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
The computerized tomographic appearance of frontal lobotomy.
1956
1956
BIMEDIAL LOBOTOMY: FIVE‐YEAR EVALUATION
1951
1951
Frontal Lobe Surgery in Treatment of Intractable Pain *
Improvement in methods of dealing with complications of debilitating illnesses has resulted in prolongation of the lives of many… 
1951
1951
Selective cortical undercutting; results in new method of fractional lobotomy.
Highly Cited
1950
Highly Cited
1950
Some physical and pharmacological factors affecting delayed response performance of baboons following frontal lobotomy.
HUNTER (13) devised the delayed response test as a method to evaluate, in animals, the variables intervening between the exposure… 
1950
1950
Studies of anxiety: II. The effects of lobotomy on a feeding inhibition in dogs.
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