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.

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.

By 1945 Freeman had begun to lose confidence in the effectiveness of standard lobotomy, and thus he set to work on refining a procedure known as transorbital lobotomy, which was not only less expensive and faster than standard lobotomy but also, Freeman believed,…

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.

2024年12月17日 · Lobotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. The procedure was formerly used as a radical therapeutic measure to help patients with severe mental illness.

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...

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.