Psychology. Psychosurgery - children, therapy, person, people, used, brain, skills, theory, health. Photo by: ktsdesign Definition Psychosurgery is the treatment of a psychiatric disorder using surgical techniques to destroy brain tissue and is now rarely used.
Purpose It is a last-resort treatment for extreme, debilitating, psychiatric disorders. Description. When is Lobotomy done? Print Email Save Lobotomy is a surgery related to frontal cortex of the brain and is widely common.
As by definition of the frontal cortex, it is the front part of brain. Elliot Valenstein on the history of the lobotomy. Better Living Through Lobotomy: What can the history of psychosurgery tell us about medicine today?
An Interview with Elliot Valenstein By Allison Xantha Miller | Issue #21 In the mid-1930s, the eminent Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, nearing the end of his career, was anxious to secure his reputation in the annals of science. He attended a medical symposium where a researcher reported marked behavioral changes in two chimpanzees after he had removed the frontal lobes of their brains; Moniz decided to try something similar in humans. The Quad. Gnostic Media - Research & Publishing with host Jan Irvin. Cosmic Races in the Bible. Gnostic Teachings.
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