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Lobotomy and modern day treatment

Published on Nov 22, 2015

I wanted to research lobotomys and the effects it had; then compare it to modern day treatments, and show the difference between the two. It shows the impact on how the lobotomy affected people; showed the new modern day treatments, and compared how they both worked.

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Lobotomy & modern day treatments
By : Reonna Huettner

pre-frontal lobotomy

transorbital lobotomy

Walter Freeman

Lobotomy's conducted by Walter F.

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Cause and effect of lobotomy

Lobotomy used on People who were:

  • Mentally ill
  • chronic pain
  • suicidal
  • depressed
  • diagnosed with a diesease

After the lobotomy some faced:

  • lost emotions
  • became childlike
  • Didn’t worry nor act like adults
  • Turned into “vegetables”
  • went in; came out with no difference, or change
  • died

“...anxiety, depression, insomnia, suicidal ideas, delusions, hallucinations, crying spells, melancholia, obsessions, panic states, disorientation...” (soundportraits.org,2015)

Compare and CONTRAST

Lobotomy to modern day treatments

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