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Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion, and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders.

DOI: 10.1037/11151-000

Publisher: Baillière, Tindall & Cox - American Psychological Association

Sep 11, 2006

1 - 10 of 26 Chapters

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The Significance of the Frontal Lobes.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 21 –28

Discusses the significance of the frontal lobes in mental and specifically intellectual functioning. Historical concepts and anthropological measurement is explored. The topographic anatomy of the human frontal lobes is detailed. The connections of the frontal lobe are considered. (PsycInfo...
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Autonomic Functions of the Frontal Lobe.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 29 –31

Summarizes research on the anatomic functions of the frontal lobe in humans and animals. Studies of prefrontal lobotomy patients, brain injury patients, patients with brain tumors or lesions are discussed. Results from studies in which the frontal lobes were removed from monkeys and dogs are...
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Experiments on Lower Animals.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 32 –34

Almost immediately after the original experiments of Fritsch and Hitzig. attention was turned to the frontal lobes in relation to behavior, and many series of investigations into their function were carried through in different laboratories. The controversy which this type of investigation...
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Tumors of the Frontal Lobes.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 35 –37

Argues that some of the keenest reasoning in regard to the function of the frontal lobes has been derived from a study of patients carrying tumors, while at the same time some of the falsest concepts have also been put forward. Examples of both types of conclusions are presented. It is concluded...
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Frontal Lobe Atrophies.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 38 –40

There is a slowly progressive atrophy of the brain that sometimes affects particularly the frontal lobes although by no means exclusively. The presenile atrophy described by Alzheimer and the lobar atrophy or lobar sclerosis described by Pick are almost always symmetrical, and they occur with...
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Softenings of the Frontal Lobes.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 41 –42

Maintains that bilateral softenings in the frontal lobes are excessively rare, but they are of sufficient interest in connection with the present study to warrant full consideration. Case examples are described. It is concluded that the exact bearing of these cases upon the question of prefrontal...
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Injuries to the Frontal Lobes.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 43 –56

The frontal lobes are peculiarly susceptible to traumatism, whether from direct or indirect violence. The blows may be crushing as in automobile accidents, kicks from a horse or blows from a blunt instrument, or penetrating as from bullet wounds, either homicidal or suicidal; or the frontal lobes...
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Frontal Lobectomy in Man.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 57 –75

The advances in the technique of neurologic surgery since the War have been truly astounding. This has depended not only upon the skill of the surgeon himself, but also upon the development of adequate tools for the surgeon to work with, particularly the electrosurgical units that render total...
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Operative Technic, Preoperative and Postoperative Care.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 79 –92

While prefrontal lobotomy is still in a developmental phase, improvements in the method of operation have already produced a higher incidence of good clinical results. The operative technic is simple but exact. The method which has been developed at the George Washington University Hospital will...
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The Critical Plane of Section.

Freeman, Walter; Watts, James W.; Hunt, Thelma

Pages: 93 –107

Prefrontal lobotomy has been performed in eighty patients with mental disorders. Thorium dioxide or lipiodol has been injected at operation, and the depth and extent of the incision in the frontal lobe has been verified by roentgenograms in nearly all cases. The best results occur when the...

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