PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mcgill University Health Centre, Crash Test, Behavioral Neuroscience
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In support of non-human animals experiments: they will produce such great benefits for humanity that they are morally acceptable. The second step was psychic driving - put a tape recorder on and play them on a loop to the patients (some were conscious, others not) - thought that this would improve the patients: the prefrontal lobotomy. In 1935, dr. egas moniz attended a neurological conference in. London where fulton had brought his two frontal-lobe-lesioned chimps for demonstration: after seeing these cases, moniz persuaded neurosurgeon almeida. Lima to operate on a series of psychiatric patients: lima used leucotome to cut holes in the prefrontal cortex of these patients, moniz claimed that these prefrontal surgeries were therapeutically successful and had no significant side effects. He did, however, caution that the procedure should only be considered: 1() when all other treatment options had been exhausted and (2) in only the most severe of psychiatric cases.
