The most common types of psychosurgery in current or recent use are capsulotomy, cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy.
A few people underwent the standard pre-frontal leucotomy; the most commonly used operation was subcaudate tractotomy.
Pre-frontal leucotomy is an example in that field.
One young woman who underwent a leucotomy turned out to have been detained illegally for eighteen years.
They designed an instrument which they called a leucotome, and called the operation a leucotomy (cutting of the white matter).
We need say no more about pre-frontal leucotomies.
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.
