Abstract

Nine pacients aged between 9 and 16 with behavior disturbances were subjected to the Freeman and Watts’s prefrontal leucotomy. The series comprises the following diagnostics : feeblemindness with epilepsy (4 cases), endogenous feeblemindness (2 cases), feeblemindness following meningoencephalitis (2 cases), psychopathic personality (1 case). The patients were followed up to one year. The results follow: social recovery (1 case), improvement (4 cases), failures (2 cases), deaths (2 cases) […]. Prefrontal leucotomy in girls

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