Leucotomy was first reported in the Italian medical press in 1936 and Moniz published an article in Italian on the technique in the following year.
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Egas Moniz ( 1874 1955 ) in Portugal developed a procedure of leucotomy ( now mostly known as lobotomy ) to treat severe psychiatric disorders.
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I'd like to use some diagrams and photographs contained in this article : Bilateral Frontal Lobe Leucotomy in the Treatment of Mental Disease.
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By 1947 the Board of Control was able to publish a report entitled " Pre-frontal leucotomy in 1, 000 cases ".
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In 1949 Moniz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine because of his " discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses ".
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Rostral leucotomy, in which holes were drilled in the top of the skull and the cut made in a downwards direction, was devised by McKissock.
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There are four different psychosurgical techniques that have been in common use in recent years : anterior cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, limbic leucotomy and anterior capsulotomy.
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In the former USSR, leucotomies were used for the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1940s, but the practice was prohibited by the Ministry of Health in 1950.
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Success rates for anterior capsulotomy, anterior cingulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, and limbic leucotomy in treating depression and OCD have been reported as between 25 and 70 per cent.
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In the late 1930s, Egas Moniz conceived the leucotomy ( AKA prefrontal lobotomy ) in which the fibers connecting the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain were severed.
