Early in the twentieth century,Dr.Walter Freeman treated mental patients by performing:
A) a hemispherectomy
B) a basal ganglia ablation
C) a lobotomy
D) germline therapy

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Dr. Walter Freeman performed lobotomies, also known as prefrontal lobotomies, on mental patients in the early twentieth century. This involved severing connections in the prefrontal cortex of the brain in an attempt to treat various psychiatric disorders. However, this procedure had serious and often permanent side effects and has since been largely abandoned in modern medicine.

Early in the Twentieth Century,Dr