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Psychosomatic Medicine 4:96-104 (1942)
© 1942 American Psychosomatic Society

Frontal Lobotomy in the Treatment of Chronic Psychotic Overactivity

Report of Six Cases

LOUIS H. COHEN M.D.1, RUDOLPH G. NOVICK M.D.2, and ABRAHAM ETTLESON M.D.3

1 Elgin State Hospital, Elgin, Illinois
2 Norwich State Hospital, Norwich, Conn.
3 Manteno State Hospital, Manteno, Illinois

In this paper there are presented 6 patients with chronic psychotic overactivity who were subjected to bilateral frontal lobotomy. All the patients were psychotics (probably all schizophrenics) who had been ill from 8 to 28 years, and who had manifested persistent aggressiveness, combativeness, and destructiveness. The pertinent literature has been cited and shown to be equivocal. In the present series 5 of the 6 patients "improved," to some extent at least, with respect to the diminution of their overactivity. On the present empirical basis, granted the paucity of cases, frontal lobotomy seems to exercise sufficient benefit for the patient to warrant further investigation with respect to its effects on psychotic activity disturbances.






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