Page 2 Colle™! J^II AU0 ^riday, March 10, 1972 Psychiatrist charges cadet slouch by jim Earie ‘Brain mutilations’ performed “After I read this, I realized that you had mistakenly handed in a letter to your girl instead of your theme. Have you considered fiction as a career?” HOUSTON UP)—A psychiatrist charged Thursday that American surgeons are performing 400 to 600 brain “mutilations” a year for the purpose of controlling aggres sive behavior and emotions among disturbed persons, some of them as young as five. Dr. Peter R. Breggin, a Wash ington, D.C. psychiatrist, said that a “new wave” of behavior- control brains, such as lobotomies, are being performed even though they have little demonstrable val ue. Breggin made the statements in an interview at a symposium here of Neuro-surgeons, many of whom were subjects of his attack. He is scheduled to confront the doctors Friday in a presentation at a symposium. In the interview, Breggin said the operations, called psycho surgery, are being performed on “people who have relatively in tact personalities” solely for the purpose of making them less ag gressive. Many of the operations, he said, are being performed on hy peractive children, some of whom are only five years old. “The doctor puts electrodes into the hypothalmus (a part of the brain) and finds areas of hyper activity,” said Breggin. “Then he In Detroit Mistaken identity leads to death DETROIT ) — A Wayne County sheriff’s deputy was killed and three deputies were wounded Thursday by Detroit police of ficers in what officials described as a tragic case of mistaken iden tity. The shootings came after three cruising police officers broke in on five off-duty deputies and a civilian playing cards in a second- floor apartment on Detroit’s West Side. The civilian, Richard Sain, 32, who lives in another apartment in the building, said an unidenti fied man shouted through the open door, “Police!” and started firing. “Then they began beating everybody,” he charged. “They didn’t stop until they found out they were deputies by their badges.” There was no immediate com ment from authorities on Sain’s charges. In an early morning joint news conference, Detroit Police Com missioner John Nichols and Wayne County Sheriff William Lucas had agreed that the shoot out was a “tragic mistake.” Preliminary questioning, they said, indicated that each side be lieved the other started shooting first. deputy Henry Duvall, 29, of De troit, was wounded in the leg, and deputy Aaron Vincent, 23, had a grazing gun wound of the head. “The officers . . . saw what seemed to them to be a suspi cious-looking armed man who entered an apartment late at night before they could reach him to question him,” Nichols said. Deputy Henry Henderson, 40, of Detroit, was fatally wounded in the shooting; Deputy James Jenkins, 29, of Detroit, was criti cally injured with bullet wounds in the head, arm and abdomen; None of the officers involved was in uniform. The city police men were members of a contro versial unit called STRESS — Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets. Several alleged robbers have been shot and killed on the streets by STRESS officers. Portable ‘intensive care’ unit may be used on cardiac cases SAN ANTONIO, Tex. ) — An Army team revealed Thursday a demonstration model of a tiny device which they say can be im planted in a cardiac patient to guard his heart like a portable intensive care unit. Developed at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., it is designed to automati cally monitor the heart, detect lethal rhythm irregularities and return it to its normal heartbeat. The device, about the size of a woman’s powder puff, is par ticularly aimed for use in remote areas such as military field hos pitals or small towns where mon itoring equipment is unavailable. Two Army medical officers and a civilian research scientist said the computerized device has been successfully tested in dogs and should be ready for human use within a year. An external device that will perform the same functions is ex pected to be completed by the end of June, they said. It was the brainchild of Maj. Leo Rubin, chief of medicine at Ft. Monmouth’s Patterson Army Hospital, who said he first began experimenting with the idea while a resident at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York. “It’s almost like an implan table, miniaturized cardiac inten sive care unit,” he said in an in terview here Thursday. Rubin said he believes it ulti mately will eliminate the con stant monitoring of heart patients in cardiac wards. It also will al low for early transportation of critically injured patients with out the need for coronary inten sive care nurses or cardiologists accompanying them, he said. > Using a demonstration model several inches larger than the battery-powered device, Rubin showed how it works: Connected to a special cath eter threaded through the jugular vein to the right ventricle of the heart, it monitors the heartbeat with miniaturized computer cir cuits. When the heart goes into fibr illation — wild and discordant tremors—the device will shock the heart with a powerful electrical charge that will bring the heart to a standstill. If the heart does not return to normal by itself, the device will call into action a built-in pace maker that will restore the nor mal heartbeat. Large machines in hospital car diac units now perform the same tasks, Rubin pointed out. AARGH! ... John R. Moffitt »n-~ *7* Cbe Battalion Opitiions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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Then the children become quiet and easy to manage.” The coagulation is performed with heat and, in effect, kills that part of the brain, he said. “To mutilate them in order to calm them down is a terrible thing,” Breggin said. Psycho-surgery enjoyed wide use in institutions three decades ago, he said, but declined in the late 1950s. “We’re just at the beginning of a second wave,” he said. “The first one took 50,000 victims.” Neurotic women in their 40s and 60s, he said, are the largest group receiving the operations. “A woman is more subject to any type of pressure you can put on,” he said. “A man will put up with a very brain damaged house keeper.” Some of the operations, he said, are being performed under a U.S. Department of Justice grant de signed to develop a method of screening out people who are prone to violence. “A return to lobotomy is a part of the return to law and order,” Breggin said. The psychiatrist said the oper ations have proven of no real value in most cases. “You can’t help a man by put ting a defect into his personality,” he said. “It’s like treating a car which has a knock by firing bul lets into it. Lobotomies are par tial abortions on living individ uals.” Psycho-surgery, he said^ had largely been confined before to patients “from the back wards” of institutions, but now patients receiving the procedure are often only neurotic. Mutscher trial Lube Job . . . 80c With oil change & filter change Relign Brakes & Turn Brake Drums Most American Cars $39.70 Parts & Labor Walding’s Texaco Service Center Across from the New Engineering Bldg. — 846-9455 L. J- D More th icing an( * purchas Indents ai estimal rs STUDENT DISCOUNT JAY’S PACKAGE STORE At The Saber Inn (With this ad or student ID) (Continued from page 1) bank reserves considerably be low their average and added: “I was never able to convince Mr. Sharp that banks should have reserves. 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