There have been no controlled trials ofleucotomyor temporal lobectomy.
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This information is not available, but in 1973, 12 operations involving division of brain tissue—which includesleucotomy, lobotomy, tractotomy and others—were performed.
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I am advised thatleucotomyoperations are nowadays used only for a few patients who fail to respond to other methods of psychiatric treatment.
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He, too, stated that they were reducing the need forleucotomy.
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Leucotomywhich can have the effect of totally changing a patient's personality is legal, although it is a serious thing.
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Drugs, or at worstleucotomy, are no real solution to adjustment to adverse conditions.
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Figures ofleucotomyoperations are not available for 1953, and those for previous years include voluntary as well as certified and temporary patients.
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Many people say that this treatment was just as rough and ready as the old prefrontalleucotomy.
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Pre-frontalleucotomyis an example in that field.
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We need say no more about pre-frontal leucotomies.
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Shock treatment, insulin,leucotomy, provide the possibility that people who have been abnormal can, under treatment, have a chance of becoming perfectly normal people in the end.
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Limbicleucotomyis a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.
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Frontal lobotomy (sometimes called frontalleucotomy) successfully reduced distress but at the cost of often blunting the subject's emotions, volition and personality.
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Electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in 1942 followed by the first prefrontalleucotomyoperation in the hospital in 1946.
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They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome, and called the operation aleucotomy(cutting of the white matter).
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