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Show Brain Operation For 'Tension' State There are cases where the pain is not physical, but mental, and these patients suffer untold agony from grief, anxiety, shame and remorse, ungovernable temper and other mental and emotional disturbances. This pain affects their whole routine of life food, rest, work. If it were not for the sake of their families or loved ones, this mental pain would drive many of them to self destruction. destruc-tion. How can these cases of severe mental pain obtain relief? For years surgeons have been able to give relief in physical pain by cutting the nerves supplying the sensation sen-sation in the part affected. In the same manner, surgeons are now, in the severe cases of mental pain, removing part of the brain. In the Bulletin, New York Academy Acad-emy of Medicine, New York, Drs. W. Freeman and J. W. Watts, New York, state that the removal of this part of the brain the frontal lobes is past the experimental stage and definite relief from mental and emotional emo-tional pain is now possible. These physicians have followed all their 136 patients for a period of six years and give the following conclusions. 1. The operation interrupts the connection between the front lobes of the brain and the thalamus (the part of the brain which feels or re-) cords certain emotional sensations) ( which reduces the emotional reactions reac-tions of the patient. This loss of painful self-consciousness causes the patient to look outward instead of inward. I 2. Intelligence is unharmed but self responsibility is decreased so that these patients may become lazy and lack tact. Other patients retain the proper degree of responsibility toward others. 3. Best results are obtained in "tension" states with obsessions, good results in depressions, and fair results in day dreaming states. QUESTION BOX Q. Would you please explain the symptoms of a dropped stomach? A. If stomach is dropped other organs arc likely dropped. Symptoms Symp-toms arc tired feeling, irritable, pas. Q. What docs it mean when walking walk-ing or going upstairs my less get heavy and my heart beats very fast. ; A. These symptoms sliow you j need more exercise. Sit down after going upstairs and see if your heart rate is back to normal in three oi (our minutes. |