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1930s and has a controversial history
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neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD
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The practice was enthusiastically taken up by American neurologist Walter Freeman who devised his own version of the operation and called it a lobotomy
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His later modification, the transorbital lobotomy, which involved anaesthetising a patient with electroconvulsive shock and hammering an instrument like an ice-pick through the eye socket, dispensed with the need for a neurosurgeon and became subject to widespread use — and abuse.
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award of the Nobel prize to
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Moniz in 1949 the lobotomy was largely discredited and replaced by chlorpromazine in the 1950s
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small piece of brain is destroyed or removed
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cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy and limbic leucotomy.
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most common types of psychosurgery in current or recent use are capsulotomy
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radiation, thermo-coagulation, freezing or cutting
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03 Dec 09
Jordan Ficklinglobotomy1
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The medical procedure of psychosurgery should not be confused with psychic surgery — surgery purportedly performed by paranormal means.
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"Ice pick lobotomy"
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Walter Freeman invented the "ice pick lobotomy"
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Leaving no visible scars, the ice pick lobotomy was heralded as a great advance in surgery, and was done under local anesthesia or, when performed in mental hospitals lacking surgical facilities, after using electroshock to render the patient unconscious.[3]
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Freeman would hammer the ice pick into the skull just
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1936 through the 1950s
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above the tear duct and wiggle it around
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"lobotomobile",
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een 4
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Ultimately bet
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50,000 patients were lobotomised
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1942 and 1954 claimed 41% of patients were "recovered" or "greatly improved", 28% were "minimally improved", 25% showed "no change", 4% had died, while only 2% were made worse off
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