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Preliminary Report of Changes After Prefrontal Leucotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Asenath Petrie
Asenath Petrie*
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital, London
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Considerable material is available about the effect of leucotomy on intelligence. There are, however, few reports of objective measures of changes after leucotomy in the non-intellectual aspect of personality, those changes of temperament and character which are so striking to the clinician. In order to make a small contribution to filling this gap, at the suggestion of Dr. Desmond Curran an investigation has been carried out at St. George's Hospital and its In-Patient Unit at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, London.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 399 , April 1949 , pp. 449 - 455
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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