In Switzerland, almost simultaneously with the commencement of Moniz's leucotomy programme, the neurosurgeon Fran�ois Ody had removed the entire right frontal lobe of a catatonic schizophrenic patient.
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Although McKissock approached from the opposite direction, the cut was similar to that of Freeman s transorbital leucotomy, undercutting Brodmann s areas 9 and 10 of the frontal cortex.
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He was in a mental hospital for over a year, and in July 1946 underwent a leucotomy ( lobotomy ), which involved the removal of part of his brain.
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Moniz s primary inspiration stemmed from a demonstration by neuroscientists John Fulton and Carlyle s 1935 experiment in which two chimpanzees were given leucotomies and pre and post surgical behavior was compared.
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In the 1930s several controversial medical practices were introduced including inducing seizures ( by electroshock, insulin or other drugs ) or cutting parts of the brain apart ( leucotomy or lobotomy ).
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These results were considered sufficiently encouraging for the leucotomy programme to continue at the Burden Neurological Institute, and for Sargant to gain permission to introduce leucotomy at the Belmont Hospital in London.
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These results were considered sufficiently encouraging for the leucotomy programme to continue at the Burden Neurological Institute, and for Sargant to gain permission to introduce leucotomy at the Belmont Hospital in London.
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Psychiatrist Alan Edwards at Napsbury Hospital in Hertfordshire performed transorbital leucotomies with conventional anaesthesia on 71 patients between February 1949 and February 1950, and found it less effective than a standard leucotomy.
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Psychiatrist Alan Edwards at Napsbury Hospital in Hertfordshire performed transorbital leucotomies with conventional anaesthesia on 71 patients between February 1949 and February 1950, and found it less effective than a standard leucotomy.
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However the term lobotomy is occasionally used by British journalists synonymously with leucotomy, either to describe the standard operations of former decades or occasionally as a generic term for all psychosurgical operations.
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