Prefrontal leukotomy.

D Moore - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1970 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abortion To the Editor: The new federal legislation regarding abortion contained in the
Omnibus Bill has given the medical profession great latitude in granting terminations of …

[PDF][PDF] PREFRONTAL LEUCOTOMY.

LAM SJ - British Medical Journal, 1965 - europepmc.org
In recent years paracetamol has been proposed as an analgesic and antipyretic drug for
some patients in preference to salicylates. The chief metabolite of both acetanilide and …

Prefrontal leukotomy: a five-year controlled study

KG McKenzie, G Kaczanowski - Canadian Medical Association …, 1964 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One hundred and eighty-three patients who had received prefrontal leukotomy over a period
of several years were compared with a closely similar group who had not undergone the …

An emergency leucotomy

MOC Drury - British medical journal, 1950 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prefrontal leucotomy is now an established procedure in psychiatry. The indications for such
an operation are usually regarded as certain forms of chronic mental illness which have not …

Prefrontal leukotomy, an evaluation

HC SOLOMON - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1949 - jamanetwork.com
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND In 1936 Egas Moniz 1 called attention to a brain operation
involving destruction of the anterior portion of the frontal lobe in the treatment of the …

Bilateral Prefrontal Leucotomy

JH Lindsay - Canadian Medical Association journal, 1951 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
JH Lindsay, MD Selkirk, Man. PREFRONTAL leucotomy has been a fairly common method
of psychiatric treatment for approximately fourteen years following Egas Moniz'early work at …

Prefrontal leucotomy

C Allen - British Medical Journal, 1955 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prefrontal Leucotomy Sip,-Dr. DW Standley (Journal, December 3, p. 1390) is not the only
one who is concerned about the effects of prefrontal leucotomy. I am constantly seeing …

Prefrontal leucotomy in the treatment of mental disorders

E Moniz - American Journal of Psychiatry, 1937 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Following this exposition I do not wish to make any comment since the facts speak for
themselves. These were hospital patients who were well studied and well followed. The …

[CITATION][C] Prefrontal leukotomy: A clinical survey of 100 cases given an active retraining program in a mental hospital

M Klotz, WP Ritchie, BC Schiele - The Psychiatric Quarterly, 1952 - Springer
General. This study covers 100 consecutive cases subjected to bilateral prefrontal
leukotomy from March 1946 until January 1950, at the Veterans Administration Hospital, St …

[CITATION][C] Four cases of prefrontal leucotomy

KF Edwards - Medical Journal of Australia, 1947 - Wiley Online Library
After the operation the patient showed a rather pronouneed frontal lobe syndrome: bed-
wetting, confusion, lack of Initlative and perseveration. This gradually receded. At the end of …