In 1948 a program was instituted at Ste Anne's Veterans' Hospital, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, P.Q., to investigate the effects of prefrontal lobotomy on schizophrenic patients. Prefrontal lobotomy is an operation involving bilateral subcortical section of the anterior portion of each frontal lobe. Patients selected to undergo this operation were those who were unresponsive to all other available treatments, and in whom the disease process appeared intractable. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109530 |
| Date | January 1953 |
| Creators | Karp, Dorothy. |
| Contributors | Burns, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Pharmacology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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