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...last 14 years psychosurgeons have performed thousands of operations on the frontal lobes. They still do not agree on just where or how to open the skull or what tissues...
...current issue of Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, half a dozen top U.S. psychiatrists and surgeons set out to compare methods and results. Columbia University's Dr. Lothar B. Kalinowsky points out a few things the experts are agreed on, notably that the frontal lobes are the seat of anxiety feelings, and that cutting nerve fibers in, or connected with, the lobes can reduce anxiety feelings when they occur with pathological intensity...
...staunchly defends two operations in which he has specialized. Freeman and Watts performed 624 prefrontal lobotomies. In this operation (see diagram), a hole is drilled through the skull back of each temple, and a dull, rounded knife is inserted to cut white nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobe with the thalamus, a neural relay station at the base of the brain. Freeman reports good results in 41% of such cases and fair in 34%, admits poor results in 22% (deaths...
Since important impulses to & from the frontal lobes must pass through the thalamus, a Philadelphia team headed by Dr. Ernest A. Spiegel decided to operate on this central clearinghouse. They drilled a hole through the top of the skull, sank a hollow needle through the brain. When its electric tip touched the thalamus, it seared some of the nerve nuclei. Few other U.S. surgeons have taken up this difficult operation (thalamotomy). Dr. Spiegel reports on 43 patients, about half of whom were improved...
...captured documents: 1) a North Korean general staff order, dated June 18, .1950, for reconnaissance of Seoul "as the attack begins;" 2) North Korean 4th Infantry Division Commander Lee Kwon Mu's operation order No. 1, dated June 22, 1950, naming Seoul as the objective of a "frontal attack." Said Ridgway: "These two orders . . . provide clear and documented information that the attack launched on June 25, 1950, was ... a deliberate and preconceived plan for the conquest of the Republic of South Korea...