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ice pick method - 10-minute transorbital lobotomy Walter Freeman - doctor that performed lobotomies 1936-1980s - years lobotomies were performed in the US to treat schizophrenia and depression - why were lobotomies performed child-like state and dull state - 2 extreme states after lobotomy plasticity - when the brain can repair itself (can only occur at younger age) prefrontal lobotomy - frontal lobes in brain are surgically cut from other brain areas wh...

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Pioneered by / Year - In 1935, pioneered by a Portuguese physician, Egas Puniz, who eventually won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What is it? - Lobotomy is a form of surgery that cuts open the skull, and then uses a device that resembles an ice pick to cut through neural fibers in the brain. Implications in the US? - Championed in the US, particularly within the VA system, by a neurologist named Dr. Walter Freeman. Frequently lobotomized patients? - Appx 2000 American vets wer...

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Pioneered by / Year - In 1935, pioneered by a Portuguese physician, Egas Puniz, who eventually won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What is it? - Lobotomy is a form of surgery that cuts open the skull, and then uses a device that resembles an ice pick to cut through neural fibers in the brain. Implications in the US? - Championed in the US, particularly within the VA system, by a neurologist named Dr. Walter Freeman. Frequently lobotomized patients? - Appx 2000 American vets wer...

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Written in 2022/2023

Grade A+

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