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Cutting of some of the fibres linking the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain.

This operation was formerly used to treat severe psychiatric disorders; it is very rarely performed now.

Health Source: BMA Medical Dictionary
Author: The British Medical Association

Lobotomy

Lobotomy is the cutting of a lobe of the BRAIN. (See also PSYCHOSURGERY.)... lobotomy

Prefrontal Lobe

the region of the brain at the very front of each cerebral hemisphere (see frontal lobe). The functions of the lobe are concerned with emotions, memory, learning, and social behaviour. Nerve tracts in the lobe are cut during the operation of prefrontal *leucotomy.... prefrontal lobe

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