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A Case of Self-Inflicted Leucotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

L. Solyom ,
I. M. Turnbull  and
M. Wilensky
L. Solyom*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
I. M. Turnbull
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
M. Wilensky
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, Co-ordinator Psychological Assessment, Shaughnessy Hospital
*
Shaughnessy Hospital, Behaviour Therapy Unit, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H3NI, Canada
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Abstract

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

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 6 , December 1987 , pp. 855 - 857
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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