LC-BrainNotes


 * Phineas Gage**, 25 year old construction worker three foot long tamping iron rod was shot through his skull like a cannon. It went through his left cheekbone and went through the top of his head. He was instantly conscious and reasoning, but his personality was different. Gage was now rude, impatient, and stubborn. 11 years after the accident, Gage began to have seizures and soon after died. The rob passed through his frontal cortex, but it is not known which lobe. Before this accident, doctors did not know that the frontal lobes have a large part in personality and behavior.

(brain having undergone a lobotomy)
 * Lobotomy**: surgical incision to the frontal lobe of the brain to sever one or more nerve tracts, a technique formerly used to treat certain mental disorders.

- 1946**: Walter Freeman**, a psychiatrist, performed the first ever trans orbital or ice-pick lobotomy in Washington D.C. They believed that they could cut away his feelings - Mental Illness is related to overactive emotions. - Freeman performed 2500 lobotomies. - **Howard Dully** was 12 years old when he received a lobotomy.Today a 56 year old bus driver. - The entire procedure only took 7 or 8 minutes. - Invented in Portugal involved drilling holes in the frontal lobes. - Cutting the connections from the pre-frontal lobes diminishing personality. - At the age of 56- he has always felt different thinking he is missing something from his soul.

Sister of President John F. Kennedy, had a lobotomy. Her sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics for Rosemary. Epilepsy surgury: Remove the part of the brain that causes seizures. You can survive without certain parts of the brain.
 * Rosemary Kennedy:**