Lobotomies - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Which of the following limbic system structures does NOT receive output from the prefrontal cortex? - Answer hippocampus The primary functional role of the cingulate cortex is _______ . - Answer conflict processing The _______ is the major output of the limbic system. - Answer hypothalamus The amgdala is LEAST active when you are experiencing or engaged in the following: - Answer sadness Which of the following is NOT a basic emotion? - Answer shame Limbic system structures were in...

Pioneered by / Year - In 1935, pioneered by a Portuguese physician, Egas Puniz, who eventually won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What is it? - Lobotomy is a form of surgery that cuts open the skull, and then uses a device that resembles an ice pick to cut through neural fibers in the brain. Implications in the US? - Championed in the US, particularly within the VA system, by a neurologist named Dr. Walter Freeman. Frequently lobotomized patients? - Appx 2000 American vets wer...

Schizophrenia-symptoms are variable and include changes in perception, emotion, cognition, thinking, & behavior. The effects of these manifestations vary by person and can change over time, but the illness is always severe and is usually long-lasting. Onset is typically before age 25. Affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Patients and families tend to suffer poor care due to lack of knowledge of schizophrenia. It is one of the most common of the serious mental disorders but its e...

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There is no such thing as: correct answers a. a valid argument that is sound b. a sound argument that is not valid* c. a sound argument that is also valid d. a valid argument that is also sound The conclusion of a sound argument: correct answers a. is true* b. is false c. might be true but might also be false d. will always be relevant to the philosophical question in the discussion A theory of well-being/value is an objective theory if and only if it claims: correct answers a. to ...

LGBTQ Questions with complete solutions| Scored A+ What is LGBTQ psychology? affirmative of LGBTQ people, challenges prejudice and discrimination, promotes LGBTQ concerns as legitimate, non-heterosexist/non-genderist research and practice What is inversion? transgender and homosexuality term What does the upside down triangle mean? gay men got these in concentration camps and are now used for safety symbol to say never again When did the social movement in Germany occur?...

Walden University NURS MISC Final Exam Prep | NRNP . Adolf Meyer ()- founder of psychobiology saw schizophrenia as a reaction to life stresses. It was a maladaptation that was understandable in terms of the patient’s life experiences. Meyer’s view was represented in the nomenclature of 1950s, which was referred to the schizophrenic reaction. In later editions of DSM the term reaction was dropped. Epidemiology-The presence of Schizophrenia in the US is 1/100 or 1%. NIH reports the US lif...

Walden University NURS MISC Final Exam NRNP 2023/2024. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia-symptoms are variable and include changes in perception, emotion, cognition, thinking, & behavior. The effects of these manifestations vary by person and can change over time, but the illness is always severe and is usually long-lasting. Onset is typically before age 25. Affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Patients and families tend to suffer poor care due t...

ice pick method - 10-minute transorbital lobotomy Walter Freeman - doctor that performed lobotomies 1936-1980s - years lobotomies were performed in the US to treat schizophrenia and depression - why were lobotomies performed child-like state and dull state - 2 extreme states after lobotomy plasticity - when the brain can repair itself (can only occur at younger age) prefrontal lobotomy - frontal lobes in brain are surgically cut from other brain areas wh...

Psych 460 Exam 1 People who study abnormal psychology are called ______________ - ANS Clinical Scientists The four D's - ANS - Deviance - Distress - Dysfunction - Danger Deviance - ANS Different, extreme, bizarre, and unusual behaviors Distress - ANS Unpleasant and upsetting to the person Dysfunction (Social vs. Vocational) - ANS Social - negative affects on relationships and interactions, one's ability to connect with others Vocational - ne...