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...staunchly defends two operations in which he has specialized. Freeman and Watts performed 624 prefrontal lobotomies. In this operation (see diagram), a hole is drilled through the skull back of each temple, and a dull, rounded knife is inserted to cut white nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobe with the thalamus, a neural relay station at the base of the brain. Freeman reports good results in 41% of such cases and fair in 34%, admits poor results in 22% (deaths...
...There must have been a lot of syphilitic reinfection to produce Marx and his followers--and Freud with an atrophied brain lobe," concludes Maciver in his es- say on monetary matters. This essay is the last of the five "worksheets" which comprise "The Philosophers Worksheet," distributed in 1948 and 1949 as a supplement to his original book...
Cliff Crosby, with eight runs batted in, is third in that department, behind Army's Ted Lobe and Princeton's Bill Fairchild...
...Cadets tied it up in the seventh. Godin let a slow roller by Bob Blaik go past him and then passed Jim Stuff. The runners advanced when Godin pitched wide and then scored when Ted Lobe, league leading batter, singled...
...treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...