Oct 31, 2016
**Many apologies for the screaming baby***
Frontal Lobe - in the front of the brain (behind your forehead)
This is the area that contains your personality. A stroke or brain injury or damage can alter someone’s personality drastically.
We take personality tests, but they are too basic to take such a complex part of you and put it in a quadrant or on a spectrum.
This area of the brain is also well-connected to the limbic system (emotional center), and if those connections are broken through stroke or injury, then that causes personality changes too.
* This area of the brain doesn’t reach full development until almost 30 years old —> Insert rant here!!
During the Heroic Era of medicine (not a well-named era) - they invented the Lobotomy - mainly trying to find a treatment for mental illnesses. Society was ok with doctors experimenting on criminals in prison and patients who were put in asylums by their families. It did cause changes in the people, thus they claimed the “cured” them.
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