West Virginia Lobotomy Project

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THIS STUDY of the late results of the transorbital lobotomy project in West Virginia (1952 to 1955) was prompted by the much larger study made in England and Wales, covering 10,365 patients followed up from 3 to 15 years. This monograph is a mine of information concerning the types of patients coming to operation and the long-term results. The present study is more modest, covering 787 patients operated upon by me in 4 of the 5 state mental hospitals in West Virginia, at Huntington, Lakin, Spencer, and Weston. The Barboursville patients were transferred to nearby Huntington for operation and most of them were returned there after a few days. The original report described the methods, after-care, and early follow-up of 602 patients. It showed that 38% of all patients were out of the hospital, and only 21% on "disturbed" wards, as compared with 67% previous to operation. In a roughly

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