Directory of Psychosurgery Resources

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• BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml
  Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast]

• Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy

  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html
  Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.

• NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080
  Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medical records, and talks to his dad about it. [22:49 in length, available via streaming audio or as mp3 file).

• Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital

  http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm
  Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures practiced today are described. Finally, the overall experience including indications, results and complications for each procedure is reviewed and compared.

• Rotten.com - Lobotomy

  http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/
  Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.

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