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What Is a Frontal Lobotomy?
« on: July 28, 2012, 07:24:24 PM »
A frontal lobotomy is a surgical procedure, performed on the brain of someone who suffers from certain psychiatric conditions. Now considered a barbaric procedure, frontal lobotomies were developed and performed at a time when the mentally ill were routinely placed in asylums. While the cure rate using frontal lobotomies was not high, it was the first treatment that showed any improvement at all for many patients. In a frontal lobotomy, the patient has the connection to the prefrontal cortex severed. The prefrontal cortex is the front section of the frontal lobe of the brain.

The first frontal lobotomy was performed in 1935, and the procedure was widely used throughout the 1940s through the mid 1950s. The development of antipsychotic medications in the mid 1950s reduced the number of frontal lobotomies gradually. It took years for antipsychotic medications to replace the frontal lobotomy as the treatment of choice for many types of mental disorders.

Initially, the frontal lobotomy was an invasive procedure that required the doctor to drill holes through the skull and into the brain. The physician then used alcohol or a specialized tool to destroy portions of the brain. Later, physicians modified the procedure, and doctors accessed the brain through the eye socket. This made the procedure possible on patients in state hospitals that would not otherwise have access to a medical treatment that required a surgical room, anesthesia and intensive postoperative care. -- http://www.wisegeek.org/

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Re: What Is a Frontal Lobotomy?
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2012, 07:29:20 PM »
Lobotomy (Greek: λοβός – lobos: "lobe (of brain)"; τομή – tomē: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from the Greek λευκός – leukos: "clear/white" and tome). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric (and occasionally other) conditions—this despite general recognition of frequent and serious side-effects.

Half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 was awarded to António Egas Moniz for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications were introduced. By 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States. --Wiki

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Re: What Is a Frontal Lobotomy?
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2012, 07:31:04 PM »


A rotating animation of the human brain showing the left frontal lobe in red within a translucent skull. The right cerebral hemisphere is not shown as if it was cut away. --Wiki

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Re: What Is a Frontal Lobotomy?
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2012, 07:33:05 PM »


Rosemary Kennedy, sister of President John F. Kennedy, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 at age 23 which left her permanently incapacitated. --Wiki

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Re: What Is a Frontal Lobotomy?
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2012, 12:34:09 PM »
Ah the clandestine surgical operation once regarded as "psychosurgery", which was used by medical doctors as the lasting cure for persons with debilitating , incurable violent psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and the like....

We now use psychopharmacology to treat conditions. Lobotomies are no longer used in modern medicine to treat said disorders...

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