Lobotomy
History of lobotomy
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tjames
Gottlieb Burckhardt was one of the first to perform lobotomies in 1890. Criticism of his work by colleagues led to the end of his practice of psychosurgery.
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skjames
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Psychiatrist Walter Freeman and James W. Watts performed the first prefrontal lobotomy in the US in 1936.
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