Nics πalmost 6 years ago
Lobotomy or Prefrontal Leukotomy
According to a medical historian, Dr. Barron Lerner, Lobotomy is a type of surgical procedure that purposely damage brain tissue in order to treat mental illness. It was used as a radical therapeutic measure to help grossly disturbed patients with schizophrenia, manic depression and mania (bipolar disorder), and other mental illnesses.
almost 6 years ago
Indeed! The lobotomy was first performed on humans in the 1890s, but it stopped during mid-late 1950's for several reasons or replaced with chemical lobotomy. The development of medicine found phenothiazine-based neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) drugs and it is much more acceptable nowadays.
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