Posted by yxibow on November 11, 2006, at 5:46:42
In reply to Is this true or is it only an urban legend?, posted by lukeds on November 10, 2006, at 21:57:05
Well, unless someone played a highly peer reviewed practical joke on a highly peer reviewed journal, this was true, from the Abstracts of the BJP. The abstract follows.
A leucotomy is also known as a lobotomy, and is drastic form of psychosurgery, which itself performed rarely in certain special circumstances of uncurable OCD and other related things.
For the not squeamish, one can read on the downright bizarre history of one form (and other links) of psychosurgery.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080
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The British Journal of Psychiatry 151: 855-857 (1987)© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
A case of self-inflicted leucotomyL Solyom, IM Turnbull and M Wilensky
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.A suicide attempt with a gun resulted in left frontal lobe damage in a 19-year-old obsessive man. While intelligence did not suffer and no frontal lobe syndrome emerged, the patient's obsessive rituals were significantly reduced.
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