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Re: Luria and psychosurgery

• Date:   Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:46:05 +0300
• To:   histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Boleslav Lichterman <licht@aha.ru>
• Subject:   Re: Luria and psychosurgery
• Message-ID:   001301c3f5f3$fc7fd540$4e1211ac@lichtmail

As far as I know Luria did not examine lobotomy patients although it might
have provided him interesting data for his theory of frontal lobe
functioning. Long-term outcomes of prefrontal lobotomy are analysed in
detail in two Russian papers published in Zhurnal Nevropatologii i
Psikhiatrii :

1. Ambrumova AG (1960) - v.60, p.1193-1197 and
2. Bondarev VI e.a. (1962) - v.62, p.1874-1878

See also my paper on a history of psychosurgery in Russia (Acta Neurochir
(1993), v.125, p.1-4.

I hope it might be of some help.

Boleslav Lichterman