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Notable Because: First prefrontal lobotomy procedure in the United States. The first prefrontal lobotomy in the United States was performed in 1936 on 63 year old Alice Hood Hammatt by Dr. Walter Freeman and Dr. James Watts.
The frontal cortex, or frontal lobe, of the brain is removed or partially damaged in a lobotomy. Talk therapy, medication and other treatments have virtually completed replaced lobotomies.Lobotomies were historically used to treat patients who suffered with psychological illnesses.Patients can enter comas and persistent vegetative states after lobotomies. Lobotomies caused some patients to enter a persistent vegetative state.oday, doctors sometimes perform what is known as psychosurgery, a form of neurosurgery which involves selective destruction of the brain, to treat very specific conditions.