Interesting stuff. The fact that lobotomy was often used to treat schizophrenia—a catastrophic failure of rationality—is suggestive.
I vaguely remember a neuroscience lecturer of mine saying that a possible factor in the bizarre nature of dreams was that frontal regions were inhibited during sleep, so the dreamer has no way of telling the difference between plausible and implausible scenarios among those they are perceiving. I can’t find any references to substantiate this though. Maybe I dreamt it.
The fact that lobotomy was often used to treat schizophrenia—a catastrophic failure of rationality—is suggestive.
Unfortunately, it was used to ‘treat’ so many things that the suggestiveness is lost in the noise.
Really, it was actually used (regardless of the excuses people made at the time) because it rendered difficult patients so tractable and easy to handle in an institutional setting. Pretty much the same reason all the old antipsychotics were used, too.
Interesting stuff. The fact that lobotomy was often used to treat schizophrenia—a catastrophic failure of rationality—is suggestive.
I vaguely remember a neuroscience lecturer of mine saying that a possible factor in the bizarre nature of dreams was that frontal regions were inhibited during sleep, so the dreamer has no way of telling the difference between plausible and implausible scenarios among those they are perceiving. I can’t find any references to substantiate this though. Maybe I dreamt it.
Unfortunately, it was used to ‘treat’ so many things that the suggestiveness is lost in the noise.
Really, it was actually used (regardless of the excuses people made at the time) because it rendered difficult patients so tractable and easy to handle in an institutional setting. Pretty much the same reason all the old antipsychotics were used, too.