leukotomies in English

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the surgical cutting of white nerve fibers within the brain, especially prefrontal lobotomy, formerly used to treat mental illness.
Solms discovered that patients who had had a prefrontal leukotomy , a common surgical procedure for mental illness in the 1950s and 60s, reported loss of dreaming.
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