Psychosurgery: A Clinical Analysis

Although science has been my favorite subject in school for as long as I can remember, my passion for medicine started in fourth grade, after I spent three weeks in the hospital. The doctors and nurses were so good at explaining what was going on inside my body, and I learned so much about medicine and myself. It really improved my healing process knowing what was happening and how I could make myself feel better. From that moment on, I knew that I wanted a career helping others feel the same way. So, I met with my father’s friend, who was an anesthesiologist, to discuss all the options that are available in the medical field. After he listened to some of my interests and dreams for my future, he said that he thought

Glioblastoma (pronounced like gleO blastoma) is an incurable brain cancer,Survival rate is usually measured in months.This became a word that was instantly defined, researched, dissected, feared, and tried to comprehend and understand by family,friends and acquaintances of Larry McKee (McKee)who was personally affected from this single word, it was quickly added to their vocabulary, because of the of the events that transpired on October 22, 2011 that forever changed lives “Glioblastomas are tumors that arise from the astrocytes- the star-shaped cells that make up the “glue-like,” or supportive tissue of the brain. These tumors are usually highly malignant (cancerous) because the cells reproduce quickly and they are supported by a large network of blood vessels.”(A.B.T A..) He was diagnosed with stage four.

As a child, I dreamt of having a career in a medical field. Throughout my late elementary and middle school years, I wanted to become a Pediatrician. I remember this one memory from when I was younger. I was at a local Pediatric office getting my yearly checkup done and thought about how I wanted to be like Dr. Hletko (my family’s Pediatric Doctor). He has been my doctor since I was born. Anytime I was sick, he would be there to diagnose the problems and prescribed me my antibiotics to get better. Not only did he help me get better, but he also helped so many sick kids get healthy and I aspired to be like him one day. As I got older and started high school, I changed my career choice and wanted to become a Nurse Practitioner (APRN). APRN’s

I have grown up as a middle child in a small town called Valley City, where there is such a thing as “bring your tractor to school day.” I have always loved to learn and naturally strived to do my best in school. I am a first generation college student. My childhood dream was and still is to become a doctor. It all started when I would treat my younger brother, Anthony, as my patient. I mostly just covered him in Band-Aids. My family was pretty well off until my parents divorced. Since then, life has not been so easy financially. In high school, I continued to strive to be a good student just as I do now. Then, unfortunately, around tenth grade, my father had gone through a procedure gone wrong and ended up having paraplegia. Of course, it broke my heart to see him in the hospital and then in a wheelchair. It also scared me away from my childhood dream. What if I became a doctor and I accidently hurt someone? That is when I learned responsibility, not just the responsibility doctors have for their patients, but responsibility in general.

Over the years, brain surgery has evolved substantially. Looking into multiple types of surgery, surgery is able to be quite unusual. Humans will cut into each other a lot of times in order to get rid of deadly disease and even just to remove excess body fat. The reality that we do not marvel about these on a daily basis shows how advanced surgery has grown over the years. Surgery is a safer and more reliable tool including a necessary component of health care. Previously, the surgeries themselves were brutal from lack of understandings toward anesthesia and none of the tools accessible today with operations forced and traumatic. With the present tools through surgery, brain surgery has changed greatly. This article chosen was aligning with

My goal is to become a neurosurgeon. I want to be a neurosurgeon because of my complete and utter fascination with complex systems like the brain. The idea of mere hormonal signals turning neurons off and on creating as powerful a system as the brain is completely and utterly fascinating to me. There are very few things in this universe that can come to par with the complexity of our minds, and that tickles me to the core. In order to achieve this goal I plan on attending FSW for my AA degree to get my foot into the door of college. After that I will move on to some of the larger universities which specific one is still undecided. When I am done with those I will transfer into medical school and begin my training in the field of

The family checked-in as being “okay” and week was “good.” The family presented in a euthymic mood and it was congruent with affect. During this session, the therapist and family focused on treatment goals accomplished and completion of the therapeutic process. The youth’s mother was asked to identify what was the most difficult challenge she experienced during the therapeutic process. The mother reported it was difficult to handle a teenager with anger management problems while leaning how to adjust to an alternative way of disciplining. She indicated Denae’s attitude is not perfect, but she and her husband has learned how to punish without having to use physical force. The youth reported her greatest challenge was controlling her behavior and anger.

First I have to do regular college before I can get into medical school. The premedical school classes that I have to take. A year of chemistry with the appropriate laboratory courses. A year of organic chemistry with laboratory courses. A year of biology with laboratory courses. A year of physics with laboratory courses. A year of English. A year of calculus or other advanced math classes, including statistics. Then I also have to do medical school for four years resulting in an M.D. or an D.O. Then after that 1 year of internship in general surgery. Then a 5 to 7 years in the neurosurgery residency program. That’s a lot of schooling and years before I can be what i want to

By the time I entered college, all I wanted was to be a doctor. My pre-medical classes were everything that I could have hoped: engaging, relevant, and exciting. A far cry from the banal boxes to be checked I had been warned about by my high school guidance counselor. My major, Neuroscience, brought me even deeper into the human body, and my Public Health minor gave me a macroscopic view of health to round out my educational experience. I was excited about

Hippocampus is a small, curved region, which exists in both hemispheres of the brain and plays a vital role in emotions, learning and acquisition of new information. It also contributes majorly to long term memory, which is permanent information stored in the brain. Although long term memory is the last information that can be forgotten, its impairment has become very common nowadays. The dysfunction is exemplified by many neurological disorders such as amnesia. There are two types of amnesia, anterograde and retrograde. Anterograde amnesia is inability in forming new information, while retrograde refers to the loss of the past memory. As suggested by Cipolotti and Bird (2006), hippocampus’s lesions are

I believe brain surgery or "psychosurgery" should not be done if the results could be fatal. If the results are going to be questioned whether or not they will be good or bad the surgery should not be constructed. If there is any possibility that something bad could happen during surgery, I believe there is no point in putting risks on that person. If it were me that needed the surgery and the results may or may not be good, I wouldn't risk it. Others may argue that it's either risk it or die, but if you think about it honestly during the procedure you could die as well.

I have elected to pursue research in the field of neuroscience because I relish the approach of logical thinking to satisfy the curiosity of knowing things about me and the world around me. Neuroscience is a fascinating area with a limitless possibility of understanding and uncovering to resolve so many unanswered and unimagined questions. Although, in recent years, a large number of breakthroughs research have been done in the area of neuroscience, still, there is a lot more to discover and untangle in this area. Such an enormous amount of research work in this area has led open to the advancement in the diagnosis and therapeutic approaches to several neurological disorders and cancer such as glioma. Therefore, I decided

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 disorders, or other mental illnesses (Norris, 2005). We are able to trace psychosurgery back to the Stone Age times starting with craniotomies. A craniotomy is a surgical procedure where the skull is opened (Gallea,2017).

After watching the brain surgery in this video I have learned so much about the brain and how it works. During the surgery Sarah has to be awake to test whether or not they will damage the lobe. Her tumor is located on the part of the brain that controls her ability to speak. By using the tiny electric current pulse he can stop the actual function of that part of the brain. It doesn’t actually stop her vocal cords it paralyzes the brain activity. The doctor says that thought is actually a thought process. Mind is matter.

Without the hippocampus, the information from the short-term memory (STM) cannot be stored in long term memory (LTM). The hippocampus is a very important part of the human brain to store our memories. If we lost it, we will lose all our conscious memories. From Henry’s case, it also discovered that there are multiple memory storage areas located at different parts of the brain while the hippocampus is important to consolidate short-term memory to long-term memory. The removal of hippocampus caused Henry to suffer until he died as he lost the ability to make new conscious