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The article cites a study, which was undertaken to answer the questions relative to the observable behavior of lobotomized patients. In this study, the behavior of 31 hospitalized lobotomized schizophrenics was objectively measured at monthly intervals for a period of six months by means of the multidimensional scale for rating psychiatric patients. One of the results revealed that the restitutional factors evidenced in the schizophrenic processes of paranoid reorganization and stability are negatively related to spontaneous, random changes in the status of certain psychiatric patients.