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Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery - http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm
Long article published in Brain and Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997. |
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BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml
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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Father of the Lobotomy - http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm
Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman. |
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Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital - http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm
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 practiced today are described. Finally, the overall experience including indications, results and complications for each procedure is reviewed and compared. |
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Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy - http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html
Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies. |