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Rosemary Kennedy, the third child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is often remembered for the singular event that irrevocably altered her life: a disastrous lobotomy performed at the age of 23. This procedure, intended to tame her mood swings and violent outbursts, ultimately reduced her to a mental state likened to a…
Lobotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure was formerly used as a radical therapeutic measure to help patients with severe mental illness. It has since been superseded by medications and other therapies.
Lobotomy, also called prefrontal leukotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure was formerly used as a radical therapeutic measure to help grossly disturbed patients with schizophrenia, manic depression and mania (bipolar disorder), and other mental illnesses. Evidence that surgical manipulation of the brain could calm patients first emerged in the late 1880s, when Swiss physician Gottlieb Burkhardt, who supervised an insane asylum, removed parts of the brain cortex in patients suffering from audit...
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