what were they used for?
2007-02-16 04:52:48 · 7 answers · asked by maggieanswers 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The term is "lobotomy" (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "section"), and it is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "section"). It consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. Lobotomies have been used in the past to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders.
2007-02-16 04:57:09 · answer #1 · answered by legaleagle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
labotomy
is when they take out a part of your brain to make you less likely to hurt yourself or others... Go read One flew over the cuckoos nest.
2007-02-16 13:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jillary von Hämsterviel™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean a lobotomy.
A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "section") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "section"). It consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. Lobotomies have been used in the past to treat a wide range of mental illnesses including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders.
Lobotomies were also performed on criminals and violent people in an attempt to change them into responsible and law abiding citizens.
Asa far as I am concerned I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
2007-02-16 12:59:14 · answer #3 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lobotomy is where they actually seperate your right and left hemispheres of your brain! They do this by separating you corpus callosum! It is rarely ever done because it is dangerous. There was a case where a person had an accident where a rod went up through his chin and through his brain. This was the first successful lobotomy that they performed!
2007-02-16 13:01:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a psychosurgical procedure in which the frontal lobes are separated from the rest of the brain by cutting the connecting nerve fibers.
2007-02-16 12:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by Havana Brown 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of time you wasted asking the question could have been used to preform a google search.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
2007-02-16 13:03:37 · answer #6 · answered by budrick_3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply, in general it's just head surgery.
2007-02-16 22:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by accebere 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋