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Common terms and phrasesAdolf Meyer Almeida Lima American Journal American Medical Association angiography animals Asylum Avanca became behavior blood Carolyn cerebral cerebral angiography cerebral cortex clinical Congress convulsions cortex criticism cure damage depression described developed drugs early Egas Moniz electroshock emotional evidence experience figure Freeman and Watts Freeman-Watts Freud frontal lobes functional George Washington History of Psychosurgery Ibid improvement injected Insanity Institute insulin Journal of Psychiatry later lecture Lisbon lobotomized patients Medical School Medicine Meduna Mental Disease mental disorders mental illness mental patients metrazol Meyer Moniz's monograph nerve Nervous and Mental neurologists neurology Neurology and Psychiatry neurosurgeon Nobel observed operation paresis percent performed personality physicians prefrontal leucotomy prefrontal lobotomy presented procedure produced professor Psychiatry psychoanalysis psychoses Psychosurgery published reported Sakel schizophrenic schizophrenic patients Sobral Cid success surgeon surgical symptoms technique thalamus theory transorbital lobotomy treat tumor University Valenstein Walter Freeman William wrote Yale York Bibliographic information
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