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Perry Baird was hospitalized for a manic-depressive condition. One of the treatments was a prefrontal lobotomy. What type of treatment was this?
 
  a) removal of the spleen
  b) cutting nerve tracts that carry pain messages
  c) surgical intervention to provide a means of escape for evil spirits
  d) surgical separation of nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobe and the thalamus

Question 2

The fear of anything new is called
 
  a) neophobia
  b) anglophobia
  c) premier phobia
  d) musophobia



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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