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The British Journal of Psychiatry 151: 855-857 (1987)
© 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

A case of self-inflicted leucotomy

L 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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