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What is a lobotomy?

What is a lobotomy? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses.
  2. The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain.
  3. The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk.
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Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy.
Neurosurgeons everywhere started to abandon lobotomy in favour of more humane methods of treatment.
A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres.
A few months after performing his first lobotomy in 1936, Freeman presented the case to the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association.
The cheap thrills aren't worth the self-inflicted lobotomy one must perform to enjoy them.
If you do not like what it does, Dr Cohen adds, you can give it a lobotomy with a jolt of electricity, and start all over again.

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