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iYOUR HEALTHBYDR. BARTONJAMES W. BAHTON, M, D.I have spoken before of the operation of removing the front part of the brain which is the seat of emotions. In cases oi grave anxiety, grief, and great depression the removal of this portion of the brain brings freedom from ail these symptoms and the individual is contented with life, his family and surroundings. Unfortunately, however. he loses all sense of responsibility his obligations to his family and others which of course in many cases renders him unfit to mix much with others in thecommunity.However to the patient, madeffree from all his symptoms of anxiety and depression the operation, lobotomy, is a God send, and also 1o his family who have had 1o observe, and to some extent share his symptoms.Because of the great help pre-f rental lohotomv has been to patients with anxiety and depression symptoms this operation has been carried out in anoHio* type of mental disease—-the schizophrenic with double personality. While it has helped some of these cases Drs. W. Freeman and J. W. Watts in the American Journal of Psychiatry (New York) state thel this treatment docs not h elp many of this type of patirrt be-f'Hiisr so much of the brain has to be removed that the individual m maladjusted, that is unable to adjust himself to others and his surroundings.In chronic mental cases where all forms of treatment, including the shock treatment, has failed Drs. Freeman and Watts perform the pref rental lobotomy operation first, thon see how much relief is obtained by the paiient and to what extent he can adjust himself to others and his surroundings.If “there is relatively good preservation of socially acceptable habits” they make an opening into a portion of the adjoining part of brain, with the understanding that a more extensiveoperation may have to be performed should the patient not improve.In a scries of 5ft cases of this* scrinu* type of mental disease treated in this way more than half arc usefully occupied, and less than 1 in 5 are in * mentalinstitution. To have a loved one made free of his intense anxiety and depression makes this operation acceptable to us all.
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Coshocton News
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 24, 1946
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