-
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...
-
leucotome or
McKenzie leucotome is a
surgical instrument used for
performing leucotomies (also
known as lobotomy) and
other forms of psychosurgery.
Invented by...
-
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...
- the
Physiology or
Medicine Prize for his
development of the
prefrontal leucotomy. The
previous year,
Walter Freeman had
developed a
version of the procedure...
-
Moniz 1874–1955
Portugal "for his
discovery of the
therapeutic value of
leucotomy in
certain psychoses" 1955
Chemistry Vincent du
Vigneaud 1901–1978 United...
-
awarded to Egas
Moniz "for his
discovery of the
therapeutic value of
leucotomy in
certain psychoses."
Lobotomy Leucotome Instruments used in general...
- lobe to the
limbic system. A
frontal lobotomy (sometimes
called frontal leucotomy)
successfully reduced distress but at the cost of
often blunting the subject's...
- is
often seen also
after severe head
injury and old-fashioned
forms of
leucotomy (q.v.).
Euphoria is
sometimes seen in Addison's
disease (q.v.). "definition...
