Professor Valenstein deals particularly with the mutilating brain operation known as a leucotomy — or, in the US, lobotomy — which was performed on tens of thousands of people before its decline in popularity during the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Unkind Cuts] Reference
Die präfrontale Leukotomie (Prefrontal leucotomy). From Wordnik.com. [Egas Moniz - Biography] Reference
Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: A followup at 16 months. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Moniz (1949) therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000] Reference
“Toward a theory of pain: Relief of chronic pain by prefrontal leucotomy, opiates, placebos, and hypnosis,”. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
Since these lines of communication run through the white matter, this operation was called frontal or prefrontal leucotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Also in parallel, extreme remedies including electroconvulsive therapy, prefrontal leucotomy, and insulin coma therapy became popular. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It] Reference
The interesting observation has also been made that serious, bodily conditioned pain can be successfully treated through frontal leucotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Moniz discovered cerebral angiography and prefrontal leucotomy and the extent of his work is perhaps best indicated by listing his more important publications. From Wordnik.com. [Egas Moniz - Biography] Reference
Without doubt there are, after double-sided leucotomy, changes of personality of the same type as observed after the destruction of the frontal lobes through other causes. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The prize to Moniz for lobotomy (leucotomy) in 1949 must be seen in relation to the methods available for treating psychotic patients during the early part of the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000] Reference
The lines of thought along which Antonio Egas Moniz has advanced to the discovery of the prefrontal leucotomy refer primarily to the localization of certain psychic functions in the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "cut/slice") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "cut/slice"). From Wordnik.com. [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference
Not only psychiatry, but methods popular earlier in the twentieth century, such as the prefrontal leucotomy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and insulin coma therapy, lay thoroughly discredited. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It] Reference
These observations of psychically normal persons, on whom leucotomy has been performed in order to remove pain, have contributed in a high degree to the clarification of the influence of leucotomy on the normal mental functions. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Frontal leucotomy, despite certain limitations of the operative method, must be considered one of the most important discoveries ever made in psychiatric therapy, because through its use a great number of suffering people and total invalids have recovered and have been socially rehabilitated. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Unclipped man reviews all in one shillalah is leucotomy to tom britches, acedia desert and lymphuria eradicator in a unsullied clan susurration. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses (Prefrontal leucotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Egas Moniz - Biography] Reference
"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". From Wordnik.com. [Medicine 1949] Reference
Think I'll call it a leucotomy. From Wordnik.com. [the Jewmanist] Reference
I came to perform leucotomy), Lisbon, 1948. From Wordnik.com. [Egas Moniz - Biography] Reference
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