PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Operant Conditioning Chamber
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Lecture 11: frontal lobe, hippo, neglect (parietal lobe damage) Jacobson = scientist who tested idea of if intelligence really in prefrontal like gall said: removes prefrontal of some monkeys, tested them with the wgta = wisconson general testing apparatus. No: there was one monkey that got more and more upset about being tested and became more calm, tranquil, tame after the prefrontal lobotomy, moniz was in jacobson"s audience and this led to performing lobotomies on humans. But moniz wanted to and ended up trying it. Reported that all survived and most had recovered , some had. Stopped performing lobotomies in 1944: freeman and watts brought the technique to north america. Themselves operated on 3500 patients: 40,000 total lobotomies in us, 18% developed epilepsy, when antipsych drugs found, less lobotomies until it was virtually gone in 60s, 70s: frontal lobe damage very common in our age group bc happens sometimes with automobile incidents.
