Jejunal Ulcer Following Vagotomy and Frontal Lobotomy

1955 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
Victor W. Logan ◽  
Samuel Pillar
Keyword(s):  
Jejunal Ulcer ◽  
Frontal Lobotomy

Relief of facial pain after combined removal of precentral and postcentral cortex

1971 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Lende ◽  
Wolff M. Kirsch ◽  
Ralph Druckman
Keyword(s):  
Facial Pain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Precentral Gyrus ◽  
Nerve Section ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Burning Pain ◽  
Cortical Localization ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Fine Print ◽  
Frontal Lobotomy

✓ Cortical removals which included precentral and postcentral facial representations resulted in relief of facial pain in two patients. Because of known failures following only postcentral (SmI) ablations, these operations were designed to eliminate also the cutaneous afferent projection to the precentral gyrus (MsI) and the second somatic sensory area (SmII). In one case burning pain developed after a stroke involving the brain stem and was not improved by total fifth nerve section; prompt relief followed corticectomy and lasted until death from heart disease 20 months later. In the other case persistent steady pain that developed after fifth rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia proved refractory to frontal lobotomy; relief after corticectomy was immediate and has lasted 14 months. Cortical localization was established by stimulation under local anesthesia. Each removal extended up to the border of the arm representation and down to the upper border of the insula. Such a resection necessarily included SmII, and in one case responses presumably from SmII were obtained before removal. The suggestions of Biemond (1956) and Poggio and Mountcastle (1960) that SmII might be concerned with pain sensibility may be pertinent in these cases.

scholarly journals The origins and persistence of psychosurgery in the state of Iowa

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. E8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis J. Jareczek ◽  
Marshall T. Holland ◽  
Matthew A. Howard ◽  
Timothy Walch ◽  
Taylor J. Abel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Mental Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
The University ◽  
Frontal Lobotomy

Neurosurgery for the treatment of psychological disorders has a checkered history in the United States. Prior to the advent of antipsychotic medications, individuals with severe mental illness were institutionalized and subjected to extreme therapies in an attempt to palliate their symptoms. Psychiatrist Walter Freeman first introduced psychosurgery, in the form of frontal lobotomy, as an intervention that could offer some hope to those patients in whom all other treatments had failed. Since that time, however, the use of psychosurgery in the United States has waxed and waned significantly, though literature describing its use is relatively sparse. In an effort to contribute to a better understanding of the evolution of psychosurgery, the authors describe the history of psychosurgery in the state of Iowa and particularly at the University of Iowa Department of Neurosurgery. An interesting aspect of psychosurgery at the University of Iowa is that these procedures have been nearly continuously active since Freeman introduced the lobotomy in the 1930s. Frontal lobotomies and transorbital leukotomies were performed by physicians in the state mental health institutions as well as by neurosurgeons at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (formerly known as the State University of Iowa Hospital). Though the early technique of frontal lobotomy quickly fell out of favor, the use of neurosurgery to treat select cases of intractable mental illness persisted as a collaborative treatment effort between psychiatrists and neurosurgeons at Iowa. Frontal lobotomies gave way to more targeted lesions such as anterior cingulotomies and to neuromodulation through deep brain stimulation. As knowledge of brain circuits and the pathophysiology underlying mental illness continues to grow, surgical intervention for psychiatric pathologies is likely to persist as a viable treatment option for select patients at the University of Iowa and in the larger medical community.

Frontal Lobotomy

2011 ◽  
pp. 1087-1089
Author(s):  
Jacinta McElligott
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobotomy

The computerized tomographic appearance of frontal lobotomy

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Duncan ◽  
William C. Schoene ◽  
Calvin L. Rumbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobotomy

Saline frontal lobotomy in the treatment of intractable pain

JAMA ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 199 (13) ◽  
pp. 123-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Gutterman
Keyword(s):  
Intractable Pain ◽  
Frontal Lobotomy

FRONTAL LOBOTOMY

1949 ◽  
Vol 105 (10) ◽  
pp. 742-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANE E. OLTMAN ◽  
BERNARD S. BRODY ◽  
SAMUEL FRIEDMAN ◽  
WILLIAM F. GREEN
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobotomy
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