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Stereotactic Limbic Leucotomy: A Preliminary Report on Forty Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Desmond Kelly ,
Alan Richardson ,
Nita Mitchell-Heggs ,
Juliet Greenup ,
Char-nie Chen  and
R. Julian Hafner
Desmond Kelly
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
Alan Richardson
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
Nita Mitchell-Heggs
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
Juliet Greenup
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
Char-nie Chen
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
R. Julian Hafner
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital Medical School, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, 31 Copse Hill, London, S.W.20
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The neurophysiological aspects and operative technique of stereotactic limbic leucotomy have been described in a previous paper (Kelly, Richardson and Mitchell-Heggs, 1973). The present investigation is a prospective study designed to assess the results of such surgery in a group of 40 severely ill psychiatric patients, who had failed to respond satisfactorily to every other type of treatment. The results have been assessed clinically, psychologically and physiologically, in a very detailed way, at six weeks; a similar follow-up at one year is in progress. A comparison is made between the results of the present series and those of a previous: study (Kelly et al., 1972), in which more extensive leucotomy operations were carried out, and similar means of assessment were employed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 573 , August 1973 , pp. 141 - 148
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973

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Footnotes

∗

Now Honorary Senior Registrar, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals and Research Worker, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF.

A synopsis of this paper was published in the December 1972 Journal.

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