Sentences with phrase «of lobotomies»

Unknown damage Although researchers are still parsing out how different areas of the brain contribute to normal function, neuroscience has evolved a long way from the days of lobotomies to stave off seizures.

Until the last few decades, the frontal lobes of the brain were shrouded in mystery and erroneously thought of as nonessential for normal function — hence the frequent use of lobotomies in the early 20th century to treat psychiatric disorders.

From a metaphysical point of view these positions seem to create such a dichotomy between ordinary experience and «reality» that for many the only recourse is a kind of lobotomy which divorces reality from rationality.

Some characterize religion in this fashion already, and as we know those women who took vows of poverty — yet lived in Jersey where the cost - of - living is higher than a vow of poverty would accommodate — would have approved of the lobotomy to maintain the «particular level of poverty they enjoyed» (well at least in 1950 — we've cough cough cough cough come cough cough cough cough such a cough long way in the cough field since cough cough cough).

The tale of lobotomy's rise and fall entails far more than one man's quest to spearhead a dubious surgical method.

Christmas - themed «comedies» like «Fred Claus» not enough of a lobotomy for you?

Crawley believes there is room for growth, whereas Naehring is convinced of the practice of lobotomy.

«Most of what passes for movie poster art these days are just Photoshopped pictures of actors striking saucy poses and staring at us like a troop of lobotomy victims,» director Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption) once told the L.A. Times.

Not exact matches

The facility used straight jackets, electroshock therapy, and lobotomies as methods of treatment for mental illnesses.

Clearly the disaster of a previous attempt to treat mental illness with surgery — prefrontal lobotomy — has not served as a lesson.

There is no going back, short of a self - induced lobotomy.

«Brainwashing» and subliminal advertising give us a hint of what psychology may do; the tranquilizers provide a sample of the power of drugs, and lobotomy a glimpse of the use of surgery to change personality.

You can not legislate morality unless you want to violate freedom of thought and give us all lobotomies or brainwash everyone.

But giving birth is hardly the equivalent of a frontal lobotomy.

My problem with all of this is that it's yet another lobotomy for our political debate, fuelled by the increasingly common spasms of outrage in both traditional and social media.

Labour will, unless they suffer some kind of collective lobotomy, ceaselessly hammer away at the prime minister for his patrician background while the country suffers from the business end of cuts.

Oh but very nice vision of the «mass lobotomy.»

3 On this day in 1947 Life magazine ran an enthusiastic article about the promise of a medical breakthrough, the lobotomy.

For a review of a new PBS documentary about the maverick doctor who started the American lobotomy craze, flip over to page 83.

The doctor is Walter Freeman, pioneer of the infamous transorbital lobotomy, and the PBS documentary «The Lobotomist» tells the gruesome story of his rise and fall.

Surprisingly, many of Freeman's lobotomies were reported as successful, not only by Freeman but also by some patients and their families, who sent hundreds of letters expressing gratitude.

In 1950 Freeman and Watts reported that of 711 lobotomies they had performed, «45 percent yielded good results, 33 percent produced fair results, and 19 percent left the patient unimproved or worse off.»

Effective psychiatric medications were not yet available, and lobotomy became a measure of last resort.

This tired, old talk of calories is the equivalent of going backwards in time, to when we used leeches and lobotomies in trying to help people conquer disease and depression!

Also: lobotomies, ISIS, and the meaning or not meaning of Life.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

The fear of the mysterious High Roller taking Babydoll's purity in the stripper world parallels the five days she has before the lobotomy is to happen.

This movie starts you off with involuntary rolling of your eyes followed by a wanting to have a lobotomy if you planning to stay watching this movie any longer.

Told in «An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge» style prior to experiencing a brain - scrambling lobotomy, the action shifts to a cathouse where the girls of the institution in the previous reality become sexy showgirls trained to perform publicly as the chosen eye candy through their sexy dancing and revealing stage outfits.

Checking off a list, there are maybe three substances the human body produces that aren't exploited for cheap laughs during the course of Along Came Polly, fashioning a weird entendre out of its title and providing a little fascination at how a four - year - old's delight in excretion is poised to gross millions of dollars this weekend; ideally, only demographics incapable of buying tickets in the first place (lobotomy subjects, toddlers) will be able to brush off the screaming inadequacies of the picture.

Instead, Baby Doll accidentally shoots her younger sister in the attempt to stop him, and the stepfather has her committed into an insane asylum, where she is scheduled to undergo a lobotomy despite the assertions of her psychiatrist (Carla Gugino) and because of the greed of a corrupt orderly (Oscar Isaac).

Spending the summer worrying about the return of grammar schools is like worrying the NHS is about to reintroduce frontal lobotomies.

The good that Ford did stands in clear relief when one reflects on Detroit's history of botched lobotomies and assisted suicides where its foreign wards are concerned, such as the number GM performed on Saab.

Maybe someday we can revisit and do major surgery or a lobotomy on [title of book].»

[return][return]- A leucotomy is similar to a lobotomy but only severs the connections to the frontal lobe instead of removing it entirely.

She was saved from a scheduled lobotomy when a volume of her short stories won a national literary prize.

It's got to be because it's part of the story telling process; whether it's Pyramid Head appearing at an appropriate time, whether it's a creature born out of the asylum in the suffering of patients who've [had] lobotomies and [have] been operated on... there's a great creature who appears there.

Or maybe you're just seeing this place through the character's eyes, a place of pain where they're poorly treated and put through barbaric practices like lobotomies.

While the scenario designs might be the strongest part of the game, it's this weapon and skill management that is, for me, is probably Lobotomy at its most interesting.

In the end, I liked Lobotomy, but it's a heavily flawed game in some areas and doesn't manage to convert some of its thematic ideas into original gameplay mechanics, instead coming off as a Zombicide style game that maybe struggles to completely cement its own personality.

But once you get the hang of everything Lobotomy is a compotent dungeon - crawler style game that can tell some good stories through a variety of scenarios, including such ones as Lesbian Vampire Diaries and Momma's Home Cooked Dinner.

Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite were two of the stand out must have titles on the Xbox 360 and anyone not wanting them to be backward compatible needs a lobotomy from a splicer

Amid the horrific political issues depicted in many of the works in the Whitney (from the Afghani self - mutilation photographs, to the lobotomy patient video, to the disfigured American soldier portraits), one could make some overly literal interpretations of Grosvenor's plush velvet bridge and ornamental welded metal fence: bridges and boundaries span the political, social, economic, and so on.

Once again we're treated to witness a triumph of the invisible hand of the market, in this case a demonstration of auto - lobotomy.

«They call their proposal a «surgical fix» but it's actually a lobotomy that will strip the Lacey Act of the provisions that have made it successful in fighting illegal logging.»

«Family wisdom» always was that I am the only one of my siblings eligible to become U.S. president (recent years let me add the qualifier «after lobotomy» but that's a different story).

On the back, Google attempted to cover up a last - minute lobotomy that was used to fit the Pixel's camera and fingerprint sensor with big hunk of glass.

Part of the list of discredited methods, presented in the October Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, reads like an amalgamation of medical horrors and New Age ideas: prefrontal lobotomies, crystals, and pyramids.

Then, as if seamlessly, she segued into this next sentence: «In the 1980s and «90s, people all over the country filed scores of legal cases accusing parents, priests and day care workers of horrific sex crimes, which they claimed to have only just remembered with the help of a therapist... But as the claims grew more outlandish — alien abductions and secret satanic cults — support for the concept waned... Harvard psychologist Richard McNally called the idea of repressed memories «the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy `.»