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noun - surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain
noun - a type of surgical operation
LOBOTOMY - A lobotomy, or leucotomy, is a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain'...
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| Now rarely performed, it was once the most common psychosurgery to treat mental illness |
| A full bottle in front of me is better than a full frontal one of these |
| This "prefrontal" medical procedure involves the destruction of sections of the brain's cortex |
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| Surgical incision into the frontal lobe of the brain to sever one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain mental disorders but now rarely performed. |
| a surgical operation involving incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness. |
| surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain often results in marked cognitive and personality changes |
| a medical operation in which cuts are made in or near the front part of the brain, used in the past for the treatment of severe mental problems |
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A lobotomy, or leucotomy, is a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex. Most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain are severed. It was used for psychiatric and occasionally other conditions as a mainstream procedure in some Western countries for more than two decades. This was despite general recognition of frequent and serious side effects. While some people experienced symptomatic improvement with the operation, the improvements were achieved at the cost of creating other impairments. The procedure was controversial from its initial use in part due to the balance between benefits and risks. * The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awardi |