Today, many people are helped by drugs designed to help depression, anxiety and more serious mental illnesses such as bi-polar disorder. With everything our society knows about how well these drugs seem to work, it is preposterous that at one time in history an invasive surgery such as the lobotomy would be just as comparably popular.
Lobotomy was designed to sever the nerves that lead from the rest of the brain to the prefrontal lobe. The prefrontal lobe is concerned with emotion, memory, learning and social behavior. So it is no surprise that when nerves that lead to this portion of your brain are severed "patients" report being dull, apathetic, listless, childlike and docile.
Christine Johnson created a website, psychosurgury.org, to unite people who are victims of lobotomy, either directly or indirectly. Johnson's grandmother had been lobodomized in 1954. Members of psychosurgury.org believe that the Nobel Prize, given to Egaz Moniz, for the barbaric procedure......

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Title: Lobotomy: A Contemporary View
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