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Psychosomatic Medicine 10:254-256 (1948)
© 1948 American Psychosomatic Society

Treatment of Psychoses with Bilateral Ablation of a Focal Area of the Frontal Cortex

ROBERT G. HEATH M.D.1 and J. LAWRENCE POOL M.D.2

1 Department of Neurology; Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research, Columbia University
2 Department of Neurology, Columbia University

Beneficial effects resulting from frontal lobe surgery are due to alteration of the affective responses.

This effect appears only if areas 9 and/or 10 are encroached upon at operation.

A large percentage of cases in which more than two large Brodmann areas or several small cortical areas are removed will show signs of deterioration in social behavior. (This also occurred in our lobotomy cases where large amounts of cortex were undercut.)

Patients whose overt psychotic symptoms are removed by operation show essentially the same basic personality traits that were present before the illness began.

In chronic psychotics affect becomes divorced from ideation to varying degrees. This seldom occurs in cases other than schizophrenics and manics. As this disassociation increases, the prognosis with operation becomes less favorable.






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