Lobotomy is ...

Violation of certain brain functions and behavior is a consequence of damage to the cerebral cortex. Individual parts of the brain are responsible for certain actions. Having ascertained what type of disturbance arose, it is easy to recognize the site and magnitude of the lesion. For example, the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex are responsible for the motility of the movements and expressiveness in facial expressions and gestures.

Lobotomy is a surgical intervention in the cerebral cortex, which was previously used in psychiatry. Basically, such an operation was resorted to for the treatment of schizophrenia and depressive conditions.

The methodology was developed in the 1940s. The main principle of lobotomy is the division of the neural connections between the lower center of the brain and the frontal lobes by cutting them. Initially, such treatment of schizophrenia - lobotomy - the consequences were extremely disappointing, since mentally retarded patients lost the ultimate opportunity to a reasonable existence.

Lobotomy is a surgery that destroys the hard tissues of the brain, which are absolutely healthy. This operation does not bring relief to the patient, does not improve his physical condition.

Portuguese Egash Moniz developed the method of lobotomy in 1935. She became the most popular psychosurgery. But to advocate lobotomy was an American Walter J. Freeman, it was this psychiatrist who became famous. Carrying out his first operation, he used electroshock instead of anesthesia. Pointing the narrow end of the knife, intended for splitting ice, onto the osseous region of the eye cavity, he drove it into the brain with a surgical hammer. Then the fibers of the frontal lobe of the brain were cut off by the handle of the knife. After such an operation, the processes became irreversible. Later, Freeman said that lobotomy is an operation, the result of which leads the patient into a zombie state. The fourth part of patients who have undergone lobotomy become disabled, a pitiful likeness of domestic animals.

The number of operations carried out for the period from 1946 to 1949 increased tens of times. The number of surgical interventions made under the supervision of Freeman and personally conducted by him is about 3500. Traveling in America on his van, which he called just "lobotomobil", he proposed the operation as a miracle cure, arranging from this a theatrical performance with the invitation of the audience. Such trips in the media were called "Operation" knife for splitting ice ".

To reduce the expenditure of funds from the budget for the maintenance of patients psychiatric hospitals, the psychiatric society insisted on the transition to lobotomy. So, in the state of Delaware, the head of such a hospital, under the influence of this propaganda, was planning to reduce by 60 percent the number of patients and, having saved $ 351,000 for the state, to go all the way to lobotomy.

But all the same lobotomy is a barbaric treatment of mentally ill people with severe interference in the cerebral cortex. With frivolous mental illnesses, after transferring the lobotomy, the patient acquired a disease that was not amenable to further treatment. We can say simply - on the mentally ill people put terrible experiments.