Voorbeelden van leucotomy

• There have been no controlled trials of leucotomy or temporal lobectomy.

• This information is not available, but in 1973, 12 operations involving division of brain tissue—which includes leucotomy, lobotomy, tractotomy and others—were performed.

• I am advised that leucotomy operations are nowadays used only for a few patients who fail to respond to other methods of psychiatric treatment.

• He, too, stated that they were reducing the need for leucotomy.

• Leucotomy which can have the effect of totally changing a patient's personality is legal, although it is a serious thing.

• Drugs, or at worst leucotomy, are no real solution to adjustment to adverse conditions.

• Figures of leucotomy operations are not available for 1953, and those for previous years include voluntary as well as certified and temporary patients.

• Many people say that this treatment was just as rough and ready as the old prefrontal leucotomy.

• Pre-frontal leucotomy is an example in that field.

• We need say no more about pre-frontal leucotomies.

• 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.

• Limbic leucotomy is a combination of subcaudate tractotomy and anterior cingulotomy.

• Frontal lobotomy (sometimes called frontal leucotomy) successfully reduced distress but at the cost of often blunting the subject's emotions, volition and personality.

• Electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in 1942 followed by the first prefrontal leucotomy operation in the hospital in 1946.

• They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome, and called the operation a leucotomy (cutting of the white matter).