What is Lobotomy
Lobotomy - This is an operation performed on the human brain. As a result, the lobotomy is deliberately damaged, and in some cases a small portion of the brain is completely removed. The second name of the operation - leukotomy. It comes from the Latin word "white", as it is carried out on the brain department consisting of a "white substance".
Why is the lobotomy?
Lobotomy is carried out in order to cure a patient from mental disorders. When the patient is not fed to another treatment, it represents a threat to other people or to itself - the doctor could decide to carry out such an operation. The mechanism of action is based on the destruction of ties in the brain, as a result, not only normal activities are violated, but also the pathological one that causes a disease or disorder. At the same time, the chances of the cure are far from one hundred percent, but the side effects are almost inevitable.
Do Lobotomy do now?
No, the lobotomy is prohibited in the entire civilized world. But you need to say that this happened not so long ago. In the seventies, it was carried out in the same America, and in the USSR it was banned in the 1950s. Perhaps it would be spent now, but fortunately, more efficient and drugs were introduced.
How is the lobotomy?
Since the purpose of lobotomy is damage to the white matter of the brain, the principle of the operation is reduced to two actions. First of all, you need to penetrate inside the skull and get to the required plot. As the least traumatic, it is worth mentioning a transorbital way. The patient is introduced a tool through the eyeboard, and then penetrate into the brain, breaking the part of the skull thin in this place. The device passes over the eyeball, while not traumating it. Methods with the trepanation of the skull were also very common, by drilling it or even hard drive in a certain area. The second stage is damage to the brain tissue itself. Sometimes an incision or puncture was made, but specific tools were used more often for stronger injury to the desired site.
What happens to man after lobotomy?
To begin with, it is worth saying about the side effects of this operation. Due to violation of ties in the brain, serious negative consequences are almost always observed. Thinking, logic, memory, is disturbed, man degrades and loses the identity. Often patients generally lost ties with the outside world, turning into a "vegetable", or even died. The reason for the destructiveness of the operation itself and the unqualiatedness of its doctors. Condition of approximately a third of patients was becoming better, aggression passed, retreats schizophrenia. Some even returned legal capacity, and they could again be part of society. But the positive effect is mainly due to human degradation. Aggressive and uncontrollable patient became similar to a child with unformed thinking.
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