Psychosurgery Mental Health Health
Psychosurgery Mental Health Health
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BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind - Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast]
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NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey - Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medic
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Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery - Long article published in Brain and Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
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Father of the Lobotomy - Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
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Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize - Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness - Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital - Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures pract
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Psychosurgery.org - This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
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Rotten.com - Lobotomy - Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
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Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy - Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.
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