The doctor then used alcohol or a special tool to destroy parts of the frontal lobe. This is where the doctor drills holes on the side or on top of the patients skull to get to the frontal lobe.
The first type of lobotomy is called a Prefrontal Lobotomy.There have been about 40,000 - 50,000 lobotomies in the United States since the procedure was invented.It was first performed on chimpanzees in 1935 and it resulted in very good behavior from the animals.Lobotomy was used before antipsychotic drugs were invented.It became wildly popular because people at that time were desperate for any kind of treatment for serious mental illness.It was first performed by Walter Freeman, a neurosurgeon, in 1936 in Washington D.C.It is a radical therapeutic measure to help patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other mental illnesses.Lobotomy is a surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas.Lobotomy By: Jake Jutras, Cameron Armstrong, Matt Nevi
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