![]() ![]() Both efferent and afferent fibers are damaged in these lesions. The aim of a frontal lobotomy was primarily to interrupt or damage limbic-frontal cortical connections, thus interfering with the influence of emotion on the frontal cortex. Ĥ. The rational and indications for lobotomy She continued to have recurring epileptic seizures, and a friend noted she had a “total lack of initiative”. Her Norwegian family did not keep their promise about allowing her to move back to Nørholm and she spent the remainder of her life, 34 years, in a Danish nursing home in Jylland. In the period between the two operations, during a stay in a Danish mental hospital, she was given chlorpromazine for a short period due to what was considered psychosis, most probably a postictal psychosis.Īfter the second operation her dream about going back to be a film actress was devastated forever. In 1953, she underwent a standard lobotomy, and in 1956 she was relobotomized, now with a radical procedure. Nevertheless, she was lobotomized twice in Denmark. During her stays in Danish hospitals she was described as quiet and calm, and her depression was not considered serious. Thus, she was sent to Denmark to get professional psychiatric help. In 1952 her weight was scarcely 40 kg, and according to her mother she was “unhappy, friendless and looked like the living dead”. In addition to her the eating disorder, she now felt depressed. ![]() After her divorce in the postwar period she moved back to Norway. ![]()
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