User talk:Klthobe

I chose to write about how Moniz did his lobotomy because I feel like that it is important for people to know how lobotomy was first started.

[[Category:Lobotomy was invented in order to “magically cure” the growing population of chronically mentally disordered people that were piling up in state mental hospitals in the decades prior to medication. There were hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients in mental hospitals and there was nothing doctors could do for them before lobotomy was invented.]]

Kristen, adding information on Moniz's work is good, but try to make a significant contribution with your final version of the page if you can. See James Haston for help if you need it. Dperkins16 (talk) 01:47, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Lobotomy was invented in order to “magically cure” the growing population of chronically mentally disordered people that were piling up in state mental hospitals in the decades prior to medication. There were hundreds of thousands of mentally ill patients in mental hospitals and there was nothing doctors could do for them before lobotomy was invented.

I put this in because this is a main reason why lobotomies were performed. Because of mentally ill patients and they did not know how to help them, lobotomies were done.

The results in patients who have had lobotomy performed on them were not always good. One third of patients got better, one third remained the same, and one third became worse.