transorbital lobotomy

Freeman performed the first transorbital lobotomy on a live patient in 1946.

Norway was also the only Scandinavian country to use transorbital lobotomy.

An orbitoclast is a surgical instrument used for performing transorbital lobotomies.

By the 1970s the standard or transorbital lobotomy had been replaced with other forms of psychosurgical operations.

She develops a fixation with mental health that drives her to seek out a transorbital lobotomy.

From 1946, Freeman developed the transorbital lobotomy, using a device akin to an ice-pick.

Also started experimenting with the transorbital lobotomy.

After experimenting with novel ways of performing these brain surgeries, Freeman formulated a new procedure called the transorbital lobotomy.

Soon after, Dr. Walter Freeman developed the transorbital lobotomy, which was easier to carry out.

Another, different, surgical instrument also called a leucotome was introduced by Walter Freeman for use in the transorbital lobotomy.

"A transorbital lobotomy.

Cawley opened his mouth to speak, but Sheehan cut him off, his voice worn: "A transorbital lobotomy.

Walter Freeman, onetime laboratory director, was inspired by St. Elizabeths to pioneer the transorbital lobotomy.

Neurologist Walter Freeman used medical instruments called leucotomes, and later orbitoclasts, both of which were essentially ice picks, to perform transorbital lobotomies.

In 1946 Freeman developed the transorbital lobotomy, based on a technique first reported by Italian psychiatrist Armano Fiamberti.

Fiamberti's innovation of Moniz's method would later prove inspirational for Walter Freeman's development of transorbital lobotomy.

Amarro Fiamberti was an Italian psychiatrist who first performed a transorbital lobotomy (by accessing the frontal lobe of the brain through the orbits) in 1937.

Howard Dully (born November 30, 1948) is one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old.

It was invented by Dr. Walter Freeman in 1948 to replace the unique form of leucotome used up until that point for the transorbital lobotomy procedure.

In the late 1930's, Dr. Freeman was one of the first Americans to perform a transorbital lobotomy, in which holes are drilled in the patient's head.

In 1978, Seattle film reviewer William Arnold published Shadowland, which for the first time alleged that Farmer had been the subject of a transorbital lobotomy.

He performed the transorbital lobotomy surgery for the first time in Washington D.C. on a housewife named Sallie Ellen Ionesco.

Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy.

It became known as a transorbital lobotomy in the USA and a transorbital leucotomy in the UK (where it was less popular).

This new procedure became known as the transorbital lobotomy, also dubbed the "ice pick lobotomy" because the instrument used, an orbitoclast, was very similar to a common ice pick.