IT IS my purpose here to consider the clinical results of leukotomy in 42 patients treated by psychosurgery ‡ at a Veterans Administration hospital during a two-year period — 1947 and 1948. To prepare ...
SURGICAL operations on the brain for the treatment of functional mental disorder continue to disturb the conscience of many thoughtful and sympathetic persons, physicians and others. It is timely and ...
- surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes ...