In the early 20th century, the population in mental hospitals increased, beginning a Portuguese neuropsychiatrist named António Egas Moniz search for a brain surgery that will change a man's mind to make their behavior controllable. Before long, he created a radical surgery that will change the history of psychology forever, that surgery would be called a Lobotomy. A Lobotomy would consist of scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal of the brain, and the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. This procedure would leave the patient in a vegetable state where they would forever stay. Soon, …show more content…
Some of the more frequently used medications are antidepressants such as sertraline, fluoxetine, and citalopram, 350 million people suffer from depression. Depression, is feelings of significant levels of sadness, lack of energy, low self-worth, guilt or related symptoms. There are various kinds of medications that can help mental disorders, Anxiety is another well known disorder that Psychotropic medication can help. Anxiety, is when the central nervous system’s physical and emotional reaction to a faint sense of threat or exposure to danger. Psychotropic medication, is used the most out of all