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- William Sargant and Eliot Slater that 15,000 leucotomies had been performed in the UK by 1962. The 14 leucotomies reported by Puusepp in his 1937 paper were...
- and put into use and leucotomies fell out of favour. Moniz's legacy suffered towards the end of the 20th century, as leucotomies were then perceived overwhelmingly...
- standard, pre-frontal, or Freeman-Watts leucotomy on the one hand and modified leucotomies, such as rostral leucotomy, cingulotomy, etc., on the other. In...
- under the age of 35, were operated on annually. In the Soviet Union, leucotomies were used for the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1940s, but the practice...
- leucotome or McKenzie leucotome is a surgical instrument used for performing leucotomies (also known as lobotomy) and other forms of psychosurgery. Invented by...
- awarded to Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses." Lobotomy Leucotome Instruments used in general...
- such influential publications as The New England Journal of Medicine, leucotomy or "lobotomy" became so po****r that about 5,000 lobotomies were performed...
- which two chimpanzees were given leucotomies and pre- and post-surgical behavior was compared. Prior to the leucotomy, the chimps engaged in typical behavior...
- members of the Family was given LSD, electroconvulsive therapy, and two leucotomies during the late 1960s. Although Newhaven Hospital had been closed down...
- Pre-frontal leucotomy in 1,000 cases. Psychosurgery was also introduced into British East Africa. In 1946 twenty prefrontal leucotomies were performed...