Abstract
Since the introduction of prefrontal leucotomy by Moniz in 1936, an ever-increasing number of psychotics have been subjected to this operation. Results have been very satisfactory in certain types of psychosis and psychoneurosis, especially in obsessional tension states, in agitated depression, and in patients with considerable apprehension and anxiety, while less favourable results have been reported in many cases of schizophrenia, hebephrenia, and others. Naturally, with the number of cases operated on, experience has grown, and psychiatrists, neurologists as well as psychologists are nowadays, to some extent, in a position to determine which case is likely to benefit from the operation, and where leucotomy should rather not be resorted to.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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11 articles.
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