Brain Surgery Or Psychosurgery

Psychosurgery is a combination of psychiatry and neurosurgery. Psychiatry is a study that is focused on the treatment of emotional disturbance, mental illness, and abnormal behavior of human beings. Psychosurgery is brain surgery that usually is used to treat mental illness (Gallea, 2017). During this procedure, a hole is drilled or cut into the skull using surgical tools when the skull is opened the surgeon disables parts of the brain in order to attempt to treat behavior disorders, personality

more and more scientists commit themselves to doing researches to help improve the whole society. “Who Holds the Clicker?” by Lauren Slater mainly discusses how psychosurgery and DBS (deep brain stimulation surgery) could let psychiatrists control the patient’s moods and minds as well as the unresolved controversies which these surgeries bring to the society. Another essay “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle argues the how new technologies like robots and smartphones have changed human and their lives

Medical Model To Treat Psychological Disorders Abnormal Psychology The medical model of abnormal psychology treats mental disorders in the same way as a broken arm, i.e. there is thought to be a physical cause. Supporters of the medical model consequently consider symptoms to be outward signs of the inner physical disorder and believe that if symptoms are grouped together and classified into a ‘syndrome’ the true cause can eventually be discovered and

Slater’s essay, “Who Holds the Clicker?” the advancement of medical technologies helps a patient, Mario Della Grotta to overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder better known as OCD. Mario is one of the first American psychiatric patients to undergo psychosurgery. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together,” there is an intimate connection between humans and robots through technology. Our authenticity to stand by embracing these so-called humanity changes can be controversial and

temporary: in simply “adjust[ing] the settings, turning the frequency, current, and pulse up or down,” one can go from feeling “revved” to having a “peculiar wash of sadness.”(Slater, pages 2-3) In “evening” Mario out in such a way, it is clear that psychosurgery is inducing superficial changes that lead to inauthentic interactions. Even the wife notes the extraordinary change in Mario, remarking "You're like the Energizer Bunny” upon seeing him go from  a person who would back up at the sight of “golden

be controlled through surgical manipulation of the brain first emerged. Gottlieb Burckhardt, a Swiss physician, removed parts of the brain cortex on mentally ill patients in the insane asylum he supervised. Burckhardt performed his operation on six patients with the goal of calming patients so that they were more controlled but not necessarily sane. Many of his patients more manageable after the surgery but one died several days after the surgery and some patients suffered severe seizures (Stone

Obsessive compulsive disorder also known as OCD, is an anxiety disorder. People who have this disorder have repetitive thoughts and behaviors that they cannot control. A chemical imbalance of the neurotransmitter serotonin throws off communication in the brain. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (2015), it can also cause impulses that manifest through obsessions, ideas, and images. The next part of this disorder is compulsions. These are the behaviors that people who have this disorder

approximately one-third of OCD cases in adults begin in the childhood stages (Chong and Hovanec 11). Scientists believe that OCD is related to a faulty brain circuitry that could possibly be hereditary (Parks 9). Theories based on more recent studies show that OCD is a biological brain defect (Sebastian 32). It affects the frontal lobes of the brain (Ken and Jacob 1). Many OCD symptoms have been recorded since the 15th century (Sebastian 21). By the 19th century, science had developed more and explained

story of Mario Della Grotta and he finds relief by having the experimental surgery that have helped to control obsessive-compusive disorder. She promotes the complex questions that human will and identity can be surrendered when the technology has been used widely. The patients who have brain damages do not have ability to control their mind, but that the technology uses an alternate form of psychosurgery called “deep brain stimulation, or DBS”, which can relate to the theory that people unconsciously

alternative to medication is the option of neurosurgery, or, more accurately, psychosurgery. Although psychosurgery is sometimes used today (mainly newer techniques like deep brain stimulation), the field is still in its infancy. Many forms of psychosurgery have been deemed too dangerous to routinely perform, especially ablative operations such as lobotomies, except for in the most dire of cases. But in the future, psychosurgery could become a viable, if not the preferable, means of tackling mental