This is an animated video by Life Noggin that explores the dark, chilling and shocking history of the lobotomy, how and why it was invented, the people who received the “treatment” and how it was performed.
This is one of those throwback things that feels like a horror movie. It’s crazy to think that doctors thought messing with people’s brains with an ice pick was a good idea!
“If you had suffered from mental illness in the early 1900s, doctors might have treated you with something called a lobotomy. …Doctors severed the connections between the frontal lobe and the thalamus…scientists believed that cutting the neural fibers between them would stop the abnormal behavior.
“This was originally achieved through open brain surgery until the 1930s, when the less invasive leucotomy involving perforation of the skull was developed for the first time.”
Lobotomies were performed until 1967 and doctors prescribed them for all kinds of mental illnesses, anxiety, insomnia and other conditions.
“Yet, despite the gruesome methods and terrible outcomes, lobotomy was very popular in the 1930s and 1940s and was performed on tens of thousands of people around the world.”
“At the time the term mental illness encompassed a wide range of behaviors including intellectual disability, homosexuality and committing a crime, but the group most often subjected to lobotomy was women, even though psychiatric hospitals contained more male patients. …And in most cases their symptoms were simply apprehension or insomnia.”
Crazy and wild stuff!
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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