Battle Neurosis treated with Leucotomy

Two cases of phobic neurosis treated successfully by behaviour therapy.

The authors, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, have successfully treated two cases of phobic neurosis by simple behaviour therapy consisting of Jacobson's muscle relaxation technique and systemic desensitisation, at the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. The two patients, who were literally housebound because of the unpleasant symptoms of their illness, were able to mobilise themselve...

Prefrontal leucotomy; a review.

Introduction During the past 20 vears a number of physical methods of, treatment have been introduced-on a large scale for the alleviation of mental illness. Despite much research the successes of insulin treatrhent in schizophrenia, convulsion therapy in depressive states and prolonged narcosis in emotional disturbance still remain unexplained even to the point, of their still being empirical....

Autonomic changes after unilateral leucotomy.

Kennard (1944) has reviewed both the clinical and experimental evidence of " cortico-autonomic" interrelations. At that time she suggested that the frontal poles were autonomic centres distinct from the motor cortex but was able to adduce little evidence as to their exact role. Since Kennard's review Reitman (1945) and several subsequent authors have reported transient changes in autonomic regu...

Institutional Neurosis

Stereotactic limbic leucotomy: surgical technique.

The requirements for modern psychosurgery are safety and accuracy. Stereotactic techniques give the geometric accuracy and stimulation gives physiological information, which is important in determining lesion sites or at least lesion symmetry. The process whereby focal brain destruction is produced is ideally by a freezing probe, but equally effectively by coagulation. A number of small lesions...