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- lobotomy (from Gr**** λοβός (lobos) 'lobe' and τομή (tomē) 'cut, slice') or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder...
- founders of modern psychosurgery, having developed the surgical procedure leucotomy—​better known today as lobotomy—​for which he became the first Portuguese...
- Egas Moniz who, during the mid-1930s, developed the operation known as leucotomy. The practice was enthusiastically taken up in the United States by the...
- surgical technique for the treatment of mental illness and called it "leucotomy" or "psychosurgery". Moniz' technique was adapted and promoted by American...
- awarded to Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses." Lobotomy Leucotome Instruments used in general...
- the Physiology or Medicine Prize for his development of the prefrontal leucotomy. The previous year, Walter Freeman had developed a version of the procedure...
- 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...
- leucotome to remove small cores of white matter. He coined the terms leucotomy and psychosurgery. Moniz's methods were taken up in the United States...
- under the direction of the neurologist and physician Egas Moniz. His new "leucotomy" procedure, intended to treat mental illness, took small corings of the...
- Moniz 1874–1955 Portugal "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses" 1955 Chemistry Vincent du Vigneaud 1901–1978 United...