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  2. Lobotomy - Wikipedia

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    The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, to be severed. In the past, this treatment was used for treating psychiatric disorders as a mainstream procedure in some countries.

  3. Psychosurgery - Wikipedia

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    He hammered an ice pick-like instrument, an orbitoclast, through the eye socket and swept through the frontal lobes. The transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy was done under local anesthesia or using electroconvulsive therapy to render the patient unconscious and could be performed in mental hospitals lacking surgical facilities. [ 39 ]

  4. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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    In modern eye surgery, a trephine instrument is used in corneal transplant surgery. The procedure of drilling a hole through a fingernail or toenail is also known as trephination. It is performed by a physician or surgeon to relieve the pain associated with a subungual hematoma (blood under

  5. Walter Jackson Freeman II - Wikipedia

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    Walter Jackson Freeman II (November 14, 1895 – May 31, 1972) was an American physician who specialized in lobotomy. [1] Wanting to simplify lobotomies so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals, where there were often no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets, Freeman invented a transorbital lobotomy procedure.

  6. Woman shares what awake brain surgery is like — and why ...

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    The surgery was a success and doctors were able to safely remove the benign (non-cancerous) tumor, called a low-grade glioma, from Campione's brain, says Patel. Parts of the procedure were filmed ...

  7. Baby Has $5 Million Surgery to Remove Left Side of Brain at ...

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    Andalusia recalls seeing Caper’s eye twitch and thinking that she was witnessing a seizure. ... to remove more pieces of his brain. “The first surgery had a 60% chance of giving him seizure ...

  8. Split-brain - Wikipedia

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    At Caltech, Gazzaniga worked with Sperry on the effects of split-brain surgery on perception, vision and other brain functions. The surgery, which was a treatment for severe epilepsy, involved severing the corpus callosum, which carries signals between the left-brain hemisphere, the seat of speech and analytical capacity, and the right-brain ...

  9. Neurosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system. [1]