Transorbital leucotomy ( transorbital lobotomy in the US ) was a technique invented by Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti and taken up by American neurologist Walter Freeman, with whose name it is particularly associated.
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Ody, who delayed publishing his own results for several years, later rebuked Moniz for claiming to have cured patients through leucotomy without waiting to determine if there had been a " lasting remission ".
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Donald Winnicott in a letter to The Lancet in the early days of leucotomy suggested that those who wanted to perform destructive operations should first establish that mental disorders were actually " brain-tissue diseases ".
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Under the medical directorship of Emilio Rizzatti, the medical personnel at this hospital had completed at least 200 leucotomies by 1939 . Reports from clinicians based at other Italian institutions detailed significantly smaller numbers of leucotomy operations.
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Under the medical directorship of Emilio Rizzatti, the medical personnel at this hospital had completed at least 200 leucotomies by 1939 . Reports from clinicians based at other Italian institutions detailed significantly smaller numbers of leucotomy operations.
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Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician who developed the cerebral angiography and leucotomy, received in 1949 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine even now, the only Portuguese recipient of a Nobel in the sciences.
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Watts was recruited into a medical partnership by his colleague Walter Freeman, who needed the collaboration of a trained surgeon in order to practice the leucotomy, a technique pioneered by the Portuguese neurologist Ant�nio Egas Moniz.
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Beginning in the 1940s doctors devised " modified operations " with less extensive cuts or more specific targets ( for example, rostral leucotomy and cingulotomy ) in an attempt to reduce the damage done by the surgery.
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McKissock developed a peripatetic psychosurgery service, visiting hospitals all over the south of England ( except for part of Kent, which was the territory of Knight ) and Wales on Saturdays and performing thousands of leucotomies.
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The purpose of psychosurgery is to reduce the symptoms of mental disorder, and it was recognised that with standard pre-frontal leucotomies this was accomplished at the expense of a person's personality and intellect.
