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A Comparison of the Personality Changes After (1) Prefrontal Selective Surgery for the Relief of Intractable Pain and for the Treatment of Mental Cases; (2) Cingulectomy and Topectomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Jacques Le Beau  and
Asenath Petrie
Jacques Le Beau
Affiliation:
Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris
Asenath Petrie
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London
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Extensive lesions of the frontal lobes are followed by pronounced personality changes. This has been shown beyond doubt by the effect of neuro-surgery performed for the removal of brain tumours or for the relief of mental illness. To identify such changes and the lesions responsible for them at least four conditions seem necessary: (a) Knowledge of the limits, variations and connections of the main pre-frontal areas.—In this field the researches of Professor Alfred Meyer and his associates, Mrs. Beck and T. McLardy, are of primary importance (1950).

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 414 , January 1953 , pp. 53 - 61
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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