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- Most notably in 1888, the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt initiated what is commonly considered the first systematic attempt at modern human psychosurgery. He operated on six chronic patients under his care at the Swiss Préfargier Asylum, removing sections of their cerebral cortex.
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May 27, 2024 · Lobotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure was formerly used as a radical therapeutic measure to help patients with severe mental illness.
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A lobotomy (from Greek λοβός (lobos) 'lobe', and τομή (tomē) 'cut, slice') or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.
May 6, 2022 · In 1935, the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz invented the lobotomy and initially called it a “leucotomy.”
Nov 8, 2011 · The idea behind lobotomy was different. The Portuguese neurologist, Egas Moniz, believed that patients with obsessive behaviour were suffering from fixed circuits in the brain.
The pioneer in this particular field, Portuguese doctor António Egas Moniz, introduced the infamous frontal lobotomy for refractory cases of psychosis, winning for himself the Nobel Prize for a “ technique that just possibly came too soon for the technology and medical philosophy of its own epoch.”
- Siang Yong Tan, Angela Yip
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Aug 16, 2022 · A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Lobotomies became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for...
Jul 20, 2023 · Egas Moniz, the inventor of the controversial lobotomy technique for treating mentally ill patients (particularly people with schizophrenia), was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1949 for his work.
