The transorbital lobotomy procedure, which Freeman performed very quickly, sometimes in less than 10 minutes, was used on many patients with relatively minor mental disorders that Freeman believed did not warrant traditional lobotomy surgery, in which the skull itself was opened.

Transorbital lobotomy was first attempted in 1937 by Italian psychosurgeon Amarro Fiamberti. Fiamberti performed the operation by forcing a thin tube (cannula) or a leukotome through the bony orbit at the back of the eye socket and injecting alcohol (or formalin) into the frontal lobe.

2005年11月16日 · Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy.

What Is a Lobotomy? A lobotomy is a surgical procedure to provide relief to people with mental illnesses unresponsive to standard treatment.

2022年5月6日 · But during a transorbital lobotomy, the surgeon accesses the person’s brain through their eye sockets. In 1935, the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz invented the lobotomy and initially called...

2024年12月17日 · In 1945 Freeman streamlined the procedure, replacing it with transorbital lobotomy, in which a picklike instrument was forced through the back of the eye sockets to pierce the thin bone that separates the eye sockets from the frontal lobes.

2019年11月1日 · By inserting a long, thin instrument—modeled after an icepick—to pierce the brain via the patient’s eye socket, Freeman devised what he called the “transorbital lobotomy.” With this invention, he claimed he no longer needed a drill, sterile field nor surgical scrubs.

Dr. Freeman was the foremost missionary for lobotomy in the United States. The operation shown is the transorbital lobotomy, administered without incision by introducing cutting instruments through the eye sockets.

2005年11月16日 · Before his death in 1972, Dr. Walter Freeman performed transorbital lobotomies on some 2,500 patients in 23 states. Read a brief history of Dr. Walter Freeman and lobotomies.

1998年10月29日 · Leukotomy/Lobotomy – leukotomy is the surgical operation of interrupting the pathways of white nerve fibers within the brain. Lobotomy was the name given to a prefrontal leukotomy in which the nerve fibers connecting the frontal …