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The authors end the book by this short but very interesting historic chapter, which demonstrates the serious consequences of the even small cerebral tissue resections.
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Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), Swiss psychiatrist, Medical Director of small mental hospital in Prefargier, Switzerland.
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Egas Moniz (1874–1955), Portuguese neurologist and psychosurgeon.
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Walter Jackson Freeman (1874–1955), neurologist, controversial father of lobotomy.
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Di Marino, V., Etienne, Y., Niddam, M. (2016). From Prefrontal Lobectomies to Amygdalectomies. In: The Amygdaloid Nuclear Complex. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23243-0_12
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