Sentences with phrase «transorbital lobotomy»

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.

They deserve to be covered for all medical reasons, in this case contraceptives just as you deserve to be covered for the frontal lobotomy that you obviously need.

Thinking abilities disabled... check Lobotomy performed, just in case any reasoning faculties are still active... check «GOD H8S F.AGS» T - shirt... check Armed with 2000 year old arguments for invisible old men in the sky that have been refuted on countless occasions... check

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

Anyone who follows this garbage needs a lobotomy or a new brain!

So now we are all supposedly waiting for a battle between this god and the talking snake, bad stuff happens, you die, she dies everybody dies and those that believed in the god live for eternity in a lobotomy - like bliss.

@On the level... You need to go back and have that lobotomy finished.

(Not talking about how to fix lawnmowers or lobotomies or directions to San Jose here).

«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.

When does the govenment sponsored, tax payer funded sterilizations and lobotomies begin... does the line form in DC?

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

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.

Because if that's what you are asking, then the answer is no, I would require a lobotomy to believe that.

Unknown lobotomy?

The guy is mental, and I'm not sure even lobotomy is going to help in this case.

For 90 secords (live at 7:55 and 8:55 a.m., on tape at 5:55 p.m.) he races through a breezy, offbeat, impudent, satirical sports report that's broadcast over radio station WLUP: «Hey, Chet Chitchat here with the lobotomy line on sports!

Not people who are predisposed to dislike the sport, who turn their rheumy eye to the NHL only when Marty McSorley attempts to perform a hockey - stick lobotomy on Donald Brashear.

Teenage Lobotomy — Ramones 8.

I don't know about all this lobotomy talk I and others like me support the club not the manager and therefore want the team to win every time they walk out on the pitch.

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

«To become drugs minister do you have to undergo a lobotomy to remove from your brain all your previous views about drugs?»

«Using conversion therapy as «treatment» on children is about as effective as using leeches and lobotomies,» the senator continued.

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.»

Given the entrenched rivalries, it might take a mass lobotomy, maybe at that spanking new operating suite at Benedictine.

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).

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.

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.

11 A 1949 prize in medicine went to António Egas Moniz for another debatable breakthrough, the lobotomy.

El - Hai describes how neurosurgeons experimented to transform the complicated prefrontal lobotomy into the simpler transorbital lobotomy — nearly an outpatient procedure in which a physician entered a patient's brain through a region above the eye with an ice - picklike tool.

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.

We might be talking Google drunk, blindfolded, on crutches, and with a frontal lobotomy.

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

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.

Biographer Jack El - Hai chronicles lobotomy's reign through Freeman's quest to treat mental illness surgically.

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.

A skilled practitioner could perform a transorbital lobotomy in minutes.

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.

No lobotomy, no months - long retreat to an ashram in India.

But I think one day, people will look at thyroidectomies for autoimmune thyroid disease the way we now look at lobotomies for mental health disorders.

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!

In the 1940's, mental disorders including depression and anxiety were being treated with frontal lobotomies.

Nothing is ever that easy, unless you go with the lobotomy (not my first choice).

underwent lobotomies and bought a farm in upstate New York, they'd be the Beekman boys.

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

The second before the girl is given the lobotomy, the scene flips and now the girl is in a brothel where in five days she'll be sold off to the High Roller.