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The Prediction and Assessment of Psychological Changes Following Prefrontal Lobotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Paul McReynolds  and
Marian Weide
Paul McReynolds
Affiliation:
Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California, Stanford University
Marian Weide
Affiliation:
Formerly Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto
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This paper reports the results of a series of psychological tests and behavioural scales obtained upon psychotic patients who were given prefrontal lobotomies at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital during the years 1947 through 1954. Psychological testing procedures were administered both before and at given intervals following operation, and comparisons were made of the pre-operative measures to degree of improvement. Also, an evaluation was made of changes in the measures over time following lobotomy.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 441 , October 1959 , pp. 971 - 978
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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