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The Effects of Temporal Lobe Lesions on Behaviour in Paranoid States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. J. Oldham
A. J. Oldham*
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey; lately Senior Registrar to the Professorial Unit, The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital
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The effects of temporal lobe lesions on behaviour have recently received considerable attention. There is reason to believe that certain types of abnormal behaviour are related to neurophysiological disturbances localized in the temporal lobes (Hill and Watterson, 1942; Rey, Pond and Evans, 1949). The effects of excisions of the temporal lobes on behaviour have been studied in animals (Klüver and Bucy, 1938), and in human subjects (Penfield and Flanigan, 1950; Bailey and Gibbs, 1951), while those of therapeutic incisions have been described by Obrador (1947). They appear to have certain features in common with those resulting from lesions of the frontal lobes. However, knowledge in this field is still in its infancy, and the following two cases in which temporal lobe lesions supervened upon paranoid states are therefore considered as worthy of interest. They were observed at the Professorial Unit of the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 416 , July 1953 , pp. 580 - 587
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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