Photograph: Multifocal leucotomy patient (1959)

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1964-1964
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Papers relating to the clinical and experimental neuroscientific work carried out at the Burden Neurological Institute

Unknown photographer. Depicts first patient to be treated by multifocal leucotomy using chronically-indwelling electrodes. Picture taken after first coagulation. Also in picture: Ray Cooper and William Grey Walter, with an 8 channel EEG machine. Extreme right: a secretary takes shorthand notes of patient's reactions. Technique continued at the Burden Neurological Institute until 1985.

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BURD/A/06/024
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