leucotomy

Professor Valenstein deals particularly with the mutilating brain operation known as a leucotomy — or, in the US, lobotomy — which was performed on tens of thousands of people before its decline in popularity during the 1950s.

Unkind Cuts Critchley, Macdonald 1986

Walter Freeman, the American evangelist for prefrontal leucotomy, used "a hammer to tap an ice-pick-like instrument placed above the eyeball and against the orbital bone behind," after which "he would move ... [the instrument] from side to side in order to produce the desired lesion."

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

The motivation behind the new drugs remains the same as it was for the radical remedies of electroconvulsive therapy, prefrontal leucotomy, and insulin coma therapy.

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

Not only psychiatry, but methods popular earlier in the twentieth century, such as the prefrontal leucotomy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and insulin coma therapy, lay thoroughly discredited.

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

“Toward a theory of pain: Relief of chronic pain by prefrontal leucotomy, opiates, placebos, and hypnosis,”

Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

Also in parallel, extreme remedies including electroconvulsive therapy, prefrontal leucotomy, and insulin coma therapy became popular.

Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It 2009

A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "cut/slice") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "cut/slice").

dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008

Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy.

Wired Top Stories 2008

Moniz (1949) therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000 2001

The prize to Moniz for lobotomy (leucotomy) in 1949 must be seen in relation to the methods available for treating psychotic patients during the early part of the twentieth century.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000 2001