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Factors, in the pre-operative situation of schizophrenics, considered tobe of significance in influencing outcome following psychosurgery

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  1. The Department of Anatomy and Neurology, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

    Fred A. Mettler M. D., Archie Crandell M. D., J. R. Wittenborn Ph. D., Kathleen Litten M. S. W., Emanuel H. feiring M. D. & malcolm B. Carpenter M. D. (The assistance of Drs. Robert Garber and Douglas Robinson and Miss Margaret Phelps (Mrs. Richie) is acknowledged)

  2. The New Jersey State Hospital, Greystone Park, N. J.

    Fred A. Mettler M. D., Archie Crandell M. D., J. R. Wittenborn Ph. D., Kathleen Litten M. S. W., Emanuel H. feiring M. D. & malcolm B. Carpenter M. D. (The assistance of Drs. Robert Garber and Douglas Robinson and Miss Margaret Phelps (Mrs. Richie) is acknowledged)

  3. The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, N. Y.

    Fred A. Mettler M. D., Archie Crandell M. D., J. R. Wittenborn Ph. D., Kathleen Litten M. S. W., Emanuel H. feiring M. D. & malcolm B. Carpenter M. D. (The assistance of Drs. Robert Garber and Douglas Robinson and Miss Margaret Phelps (Mrs. Richie) is acknowledged)

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From the department of anatomy and neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park; and the department of psychology, Yale University.

The term psychosurgery is used here in the sense of the employment of neurosurgical procedures on the frontal lobes of psychotic patients.

This investigation was supported in part by a research grant—MH 118 (c), Dr. Fred A. Mettler, responsible investigator—from the National Institute of Mental Health, of the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service.

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Mettler, F.A., Crandell, A., Wittenborn, J.R. et al. Factors, in the pre-operative situation of schizophrenics, considered tobe of significance in influencing outcome following psychosurgery. Psych Quar 28, 549–606 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01567074

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