Results of Prefrontal Leucotomy in Thirty Cases of Mental Disorder

1 April 1943

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science

Vol. 89 (375) , 165-181
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.89.375.165

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of treatment by prefrontal leucotomy in 30 cases of mental disorder. In view of the fact that this procedure is not only comparatively new, and uncertain in its ultimate effects, but is also after all a destructive operation, its trial was only felt to be justified, in the first instance at any rate, in a selected number of chronic patients with an apparently hopeless or very poor prognosis.

Keywords

PREFRONTAL LEUCOTOMY
MENTAL DISORDER
TREATMENT
DESTRUCTIVE OPERATION
SELECTED NUMBER
COMPARATIVELY NEW
APPARENTLY HOPELESS

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INTELLIGENCE IN MENTAL DISORDER
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1942
SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASES
The Lancet, 1941
PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISORDERS
Southern Medical Journal, 1937