Psychosurgery Mental Health Health Issues

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

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