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Psychosurgery (11)

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http://www.lobotomy.info/adventures.html   » Adventures with an Ice Pick Open in a new browser window
   Story of Walter Freeman, a man who performed several thousand ice-pick lobotomies over his career.
   http://www.lobotomy.info/adventures.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml   » BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind Open in a new browser window
   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]
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html   » Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy Open in a new browser window
   Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.
   http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html

http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm   » Father of the Lobotomy Open in a new browser window
   Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
   http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080   » NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey Open in a new browser window
   Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medic
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080

http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/   » Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize Open in a new browser window
   Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
   http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/

http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm   » Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital Open in a new browser window
   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 pract
   http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm

http://www.psychosurgery.org/   » Psychosurgery.org Open in a new browser window
   This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
   http://www.psychosurgery.org/

http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/   » Rotten.com - Lobotomy Open in a new browser window
   Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
   http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/

http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm   » Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery Open in a new browser window
   Long article published in Brain & Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
   http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1318   » The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness Open in a new browser window
   Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
   http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1318


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