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Moniz believed that psychiatric problems were caused by ‘fixed’ or repetitive thoughts that had become locked into abnormally stabilised neural pathways in the prefrontal cortex (often described today as the personality centre of the brain). And it was only by cutting these pathways, which connected the frontal lobes with a deeper part of the brain, the thalamus, that those fixed patterns of thought could be disrupted. Thanks to a neurologist called Walter Freeman, who soon adapted and cleverly marketed Moniz’s technique in America (‘lobotomy gets them home’), it quickly became one of the most ...more
The Sleep Room: A Sadistic Psychiatrist and the Women Who Survived Him
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