Social Adjustment of Neurotic Patients after Prefrontal Leucotomy
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Prefrontal leucotomy; a review.
Introduction During the past 20 vears a number of physical methods of, treatment have been introduced-on a large scale for the alleviation of mental illness. Despite much research the successes of insulin treatrhent in schizophrenia, convulsion therapy in depressive states and prolonged narcosis in emotional disturbance still remain unexplained even to the point, of their still being empirical....
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4742.1239