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Understand Your Dreams - Prof. Mark Solms

The Weekend University

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The Effects of Prefrontal Leukotomy on Dreaming

In the 1930s and 1940s, psychosurgents deliberately targeted this part of the brain with an operation called prefrontal leukotomy. It was found that if you cut those fibers, then psychotic patients improve in the sense that they no longer suffer hallucinations and delusions. The new treatment for psychosis became available in the form of anti-psychotic drugs. They block activity in a pathway that causes through exactly this area.

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