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...father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...
...Heath has drilled into the skulls of 32 schizophrenics, planted electrodes deep in the forebrain of each, and fastened the wire leads to a plastic plate mounted on the skull. In one particular part of the forebrain, Dr. Heath has found what he believes to be abnormal, "spiking" brain waves of a type peculiar to schizophrenia. This is one of the research avenues he is following. He has also found that schizophrenics who seemed hopelessly withdrawn and deranged sometimes show a striking outward improvement after they have carried the electrodes around in their heads for a few weeks and have...
Millard Wright had spent 15 of his 38 years in jail when, in an attempt to cure his urge to steal, he had a prefrontal lobotomy (cutting of nerve pathways in the forebrain). That was five years ago (TIME, July 14, 1947). For his possible contribution to medical science, Wright drew a light sentence, and he behaved so well that after 2½ years he was paroled. He got married, worked as a bus washer, and his lawyer and physician thought he was going straight...
...cutting a 4½-hour play to 2½ hours' playing time, the editing has also been very drastic in places. The soliloquy 0 what a rogue and peasant slave am I, which is cut in the film, is about as happily dispensed with as half the forebrain, for in it Hamlet tries more desperately than at any other time to come to terms with himself. How all occasions do inform against me is important self-revelation and great poetry as well; but that, too, had to go-along with Fortinbras. Sometimes Olivier and his co-editor, Alan Dent...
Recently the doctors removed only certain parts of restraining forebrains. With the neocortex cut out, the cats became utterly placid. Nothing would get them mad. Even when their tails were burned, they responded only with gentle, tolerant spitting. The peacemaking parts of the forebrain were in complete control...