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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek λευκός — leukos "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. Whilst the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was for more than two decades a mainstream medical procedure employed to relieve the symptoms of psychiatric and, occassionally, other conditions. This was so despite the acceptance in the psychiatric, neurological and wider medical culture that the procedure often produced serious side-effects. The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications were introduced. By 1951 almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States. The decline of the procedure was gradual rather than precipitous. In Ottawa's psychiatric hospitals, for instance, 58 lobotomies were performed in 1961, seven years after the arrival in Canada of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in 1954.
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- PublisherAlphascript Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 6130623909
- ISBN 13 9786130623906
- BindingTapa blanda
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages84
- EditorMiller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John
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