In the middle of the 20th century, Walter Freeman and others infamously treated thousands of patients with a procedure known as _____

a. shock therapy
b. frontal lobotomy
c. deep brain stimulation
d. anterior cingulotomy

Answer: B

Rationale: A small but significant minority of neurologists of the 1800s and 1900s experimented with surgically removing regions of the cortex in the hope of "curing" psychological problems.

Psychology

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