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Personality Changes in Relation to Psychiatric Status following Orbital Cortex Undercutting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Freda Levinson  and
Victor Meyer
Freda Levinson
Affiliation:
National Bureau for Co-operation in Child Care
Victor Meyer
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School
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Extract

The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in selected personality variables following a form of leucotomy described as orbital undercutting (Knight, 1959) and to relate these findings to clinical observations.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 472 , March 1965 , pp. 207 - 218
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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