biological psychology - historical research

Question 1

phineas gage

Answer 1

had an accident that caused frontal lobe damage, proved localisation of a function specifically the frontal lobe being linked to personality

Question 2

psychosurgery

Answer 2

destruction of brain tissue for the purpose of treating a mental disorder

Question 3

walter freeman

Answer 3

conducted the first lobotomy, conducted 3500 lobotomies from 1936-1968 with 490 casualties

Question 4

frontal labotomy

Answer 4

a surgeon drills a hole into each side of the skull and cuts through brain tissue with a leucotome

Question 5

transorbital lobtomy

Answer 5

a surgeon issues a leucotome through eye sockets and drives it through a layer of bone with a mallet to access the brain