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It was a surgical procedure carried out on the front part of the brain. the doctor would take an ice-pick like tool, put it through the eye socket, then swing it back and forth.Lobotomies were used in the past to treat a wide range of severe mental illnesses. This procedure is has been deemed barbaric and is no longer practiced.
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Modern medical practice does still incorporate forms of lobotomy (neurosurgery) to treat otherwise intractable, treatment-resistnant mental disorders (including severe anxiety and depressive states), often with promising results. It is, however, resorted to only after more conventional treatments (medications) have proved ineffective.
A lobotomy is the surgical removal of a lobe of the brain.
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∙ 14y agoA lobotomy is a type of neurosurgery where the anterior region of the frontal lobe of the brain is completely removed. The more common form of a lobotomy is the Transorbital Lobotomy, a procedure in which the frontal lobe is "scrambled" with an icepick inserted without incision through the eye sockets and then moved around in the brain so as to cut off any neurological connection to and from that region of the brain.
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∙ 13y agothe surgical removal of brain tissue
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How do you spell lobotomy?
Lobotomy.
Would a lobotomy be a good thing for a broken leg?
No. A lobotomy is an operation on the brain, and a lobotomy is extremely dangerous.
When was Teenage Lobotomy created?
Teenage Lobotomy was created in 1977.
When was Subconscious Lobotomy created?
Subconscious Lobotomy was created in 1992-07.
Where did lobotomy start?
I believe it was the Incas who began the head surgeries, aka... lobotomy.
When was the first lobotomy?
The first lobotomy was performed in 1935 by Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz.
How does lobotomy relate to the story flowers for Algernon?
Charlie Gorden got a lobotomy operation done on him by scientists for experimentational associations.
How many countries border the eastern side of California?
1 America! or did u you mean states???? Sincerely, Dr. Lobotomy
How do you eat after disembowelment?
How do you think after a lobotomy?
How would you use lobotomy in a sentence?
If you use a rusty spoon in a lobotomy, scooping out the brain will most certainly hurt. Don't do it. :D
What words sound like lobotomy?
There are other medical words that sound like 'lobotomy', such as oncotomy, tenotomy, and, perhaps most similar, phlebotomy.
How do you use the word lobotomy in a sentence?
A lobotomy was a medical procedure pioneered in the 1930's as a treatment for psychological ailments, known for it's debilitating side effects.Did you get any sleep? You look like you've had a lobotomy.My grandmother was given a lobotomy and was never the same again.
