Last-ditch medical therapy - Revisiting lobotomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-121

  Lerner, Barron H ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGITATION; BRAIN SURGERY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LOBOTOMY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARANOIA; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTORY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT RIGHT; PSYCHOSURGERY; UNITED STATES;

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

FEMALE; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PSYCHOSURGERY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22044443992     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp048349     Document Type: Short Survey

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