JH+brain+class+notes

=Brain and Lobotomy=

Phineas Gage - was a railroad worker that had a railroad rod exploded into his head and the rod shot all the way through his head and he was living when it was over. after the rod was exploded through his head he became a different person. he became more mean and irritable. in 1848 25 years old before this we didnt know that the frontal lobes were invovled in behavior.

__Lobotomy__ - in 1946, Walter Freeman, he stuck an ice pick into his eye performing a trans orbital lobotamy and destroyed the frontal lobes of the brain one of his youngest patients was 12 years old and he is still alive used to change the persons personality and they would cut the frontal lobes to do this

epilepsy- one cure is to remove parts of the brain that are seizing