19 Facts About Amarro Fiamberti

Adamo Mario "Amarro" Fiamberti was an Italian psychiatrist who was the first to perform a transorbital lobotomy in 1937.

Amarro Fiamberti was later named Director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Varese, when it was opened in 1964.

Amarro Fiamberti enlisted at the start of World War I and served almost continuously, as an operative, until his discharge on 24 May 1920.

At the beginning of his career Amarro Fiamberti took care both to acquire a good practical experience, and to complete his scientific training: in August 1921, in fact, he took service as an internal doctor in the provincial psychiatric hospital of Brescia and attended advanced courses, necessary, at that time, to allow a qualified access to medical activity in mental hospitals.

Amarro Fiamberti drew up the regulations for the structure's future operation, in addition to overseeing its final completion.

Amarro Fiamberti moved to Varese in 1937 to take over the management of the new Bizzozzero Provincial Psychiatric Hospital.

Amarro Fiamberti was the director of that hospital until 1964, when he retired.

Amarro Fiamberti was given the title of director emeritus in 1970.

Amarro Fiamberti died in Feltre on 31 August 1970, after being widowed by Alfonsina Mondino.

Amarro Fiamberti had designated the Municipality of Canneto Pavese and the Stradella Hospital as his main heirs, and he had left his book collection to the library of the Varese Neuropsychiatric Hospital.

Amarro Fiamberti had joined the debate after having had experiences with acetylcholine epileptic in nature, and had adhered to the recommendations of these biological therapy practices for psychosis.

Amarro Fiamberti assumes that the "vascular storm" is caused by an active and violent condition that occurs in vessels activated by choline derivatives, altering the vascular changes seen in precocious dementia, which can be influenced by toxin-infectious causes.

Amarro Fiamberti claims that the "vascular storm," is a general element in all convulsive processes that work by restoring natural vascular irrigation.

Amarro Fiamberti concludes that, while with other methods, the physical or chemical stimulus must achieve the provocation of convulsive phenomena in order to verify the vascular changes that follow, with acetylcholine, it will not be necessary to achieve the provocation of convulsions.

Amarro Fiamberti's approach faded rapidly due to the fragility of its theoretical foundations after a brief period of diffusion and application in the 1950s.

Amarro Fiamberti was in charge of the hospital in Sondrio at the time, which was a long way from the main centers and lacked any neurosurgical collaborations or adequate facilities.

The needle was introduced into the frontal horn of the ventricle passing through the oval center of the prefrontal lobe and Amarro Fiamberti thought of using the same instruments for his operative purpose.

Amarro Fiamberti inserted a guide needle into the cranial theca, sliding into the space between the supraorbital arch and the eyeball with a strong upward and backward obliquity, perforating the orbital vault about one centimeter behind the superciliary margin.

Amarro Fiamberti treated about ten serious patients, all of whom tolerated the intervention well, and reported his findings in 1937, with a presentation to the scientific community in October 1938.