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prefrontal lobotomy

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prefrontal lobotomy
n.
A lobotomy in which the white fibers that connect the thalamus to the prefrontal and frontal lobes of the brain are severed, formerly performed as a treatment for extremely violent behavior.
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Noun1.prefrontal lobotomy - surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
frontal lobotomy, leucotomy, leukotomy, lobotomy, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal leukotomy
psychosurgery - brain surgery on human patients intended to relieve severe and otherwise intractable mental or behavioral problems
transorbital lobotomy - a method of performing prefrontal lobotomy in which the surgical knife is inserted above the eyeball and moved to cut brain fibers
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and Mary Frances Robinson (1945) "An evaluation of prefrontal lobotomy through ward behavior".
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9) * metrazol convulsions (1934) * electric shock therapy (EST) (1938), currently known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) Physicians also tried one surgical approach, prefrontal lobotomy (1936) (See Behavioral Health Management, May/June 2004, p.
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8): I was saddened to hear that Rosemary Kennedy had died, not because she had lived a limited life because of an injury that she may have got at birth, but because she was further crushed into a helpless state by a team of psychiatrists using a savage prefrontal lobotomy.
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