psychosurgeries

Do You Become A Vegetable After A Lobotomy? Elliot Valenstein, a neurologist who wrote a book about the history of lobotomies: “Some patients seemed to improve, some became ‘vegetables,’ some appeared unchanged and others died.” In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy receives a transorbital lobotomy. What does lobotomy do to

Are Lobotomies Still Performed Today? Today lobotomy is rarely performed; however, shock therapy and psychosurgery (the surgical removal of specific regions of the brain) occasionally are used to treat patients whose symptoms have resisted all other treatments. When was the last lobotomy performed in the world? I am, at last, at peace.” After 2,500 operations,