In the late 1930s, to make the procedure simpler and not as invasive, they changed the surgery to where it only required a 1cm hole for the insertion of the leucotome. A leucotome looks like an ice pick and is used for psychosurgery. He called this procedure the trans orbital lobotomy (Norris,2005). Even though this procedure was simple; the risks of the procedure were dangerous. This procedure could cause infections, seizures, and death. This surgery required the leucotome to be tapped through the orbital bone. One it is through the orbital bone it was brushed through the prefrontal cortex (Gallea,2017). This severed the pathways in the frontal lobe
In the late 1930s, to make the procedure simpler and not as invasive, they changed the surgery to where it only required a 1cm hole for the insertion of the leucotome. A leucotome looks like an ice pick and is used for psychosurgery. He called this procedure the trans orbital lobotomy (Norris,2005). Even though this procedure was simple; the risks of the procedure were dangerous. This procedure could cause infections, seizures, and death. This surgery required the leucotome to be tapped through the orbital bone. One it is through the orbital bone it was brushed through the prefrontal cortex (Gallea,2017). This severed the pathways in the frontal lobe