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prefrontal lobotomy

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prefrontal lobotomy [prē′frənt·əl lə′bäd·ə·mē]
(medicine)


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I was saddened to hear that Rosemary Kennedy had died, not because she had lived a limited life because of an injury that she may have got at birth, but because she was further crushed into a helpless state by a team of psychiatrists using a savage prefrontal lobotomy.
A year before the premiere, which launched Williams' highly successful career, his family gave Rose's doctors permission to perform a bilateral prefrontal lobotomy on her.
As a young woman, Williams was schizophrenic and she underwent a prefrontal lobotomy and was institutionalized for the rest of her life.
 
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