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Frontal Lobotomy in Early Schizophrenia Long Follow-up in 415 Cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Walter Freeman
Walter Freeman*
Affiliation:
The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
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This is a report on 415 private patients who have been followed from four up to more than thirty years or until death. The operations were carried out before the end of twelve months of psychiatric hospitalization, not necessarily continuous. Many of the patients were operated upon more than once, especially in the earlier years before the importance of the orbitomedial quadrants of the brain was recognized.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 553 , December 1971 , pp. 621 - 624
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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