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A case of self-inflicted leucotomy
L Solyom1, I M Turnbull, M Wilensky
1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
A suicide attempt with a gun resulted in left frontal lobe damage in a 19-year-old obsessive man. While intelligence did not suffer and no frontal lobe syndrome emerged, the patient's obsessive rituals were significantly reduced.