PSYC 4039 Chapter : Exam 3 Study Guide
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Madness and medicine exam 3 study guide: electrical brain stimulation program, problems, electrode placement was highly inaccurate , electrodes were often accidentally removed , incision into the cortex caused brain damage , electrodes provided a pathway for infection . Walter freeman introduces lobotomy to america: develops a procedure that can be used outside of the operating room. Lobotomy: trans orbital lobotomy, generally made people apathetic, childish, socially inappropriate, docile, less people had to be kept in mental hospitals and could be sent home. Insulin coma therapy: patient was injected with insulin, after this, the patient would fall into a coma and would stay under for 1 to 2 hours before being revived. What drugs were available before 1900 to sedate mental patients? (on a slide: morphine, cocaine, hash, belladonna alkaloids, paraldehyde, bromides, chloralhydrate, chloralhydrate could be called the first date rape drug. What drugs were available after 1900: barbitol, first barbiturate, main use was prolonged sedation.
