Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychosurgery, Lobotomy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Dopamine (neurotransmitter) - schizophrenia patient have a dopamine excess. Psychosurgery - brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage invented by. Moniz in 1935, believed that radical prefrontal lobotomy has calming e ect on violent emotional behaviour. 20 years, 40 000 were performed in the us alone. Pick , and is performed on an outpatient basis. Pre-frontal lobes control emotion, therefore separate from the rest of the brain. Patients become more docile, apathetic, severe blunting of emotion, intellectual problems, can be terminal.