English to Italian Medical Poetry & Literature individui lobotomizzati

Even at the highest stage of recovery, lobotomized patients could not be expected to provide advice of any merit. Those who had been artists or musicians before becoming ill would never regain much interest in such pursuits. They might play the piano for a while in a mechanical way, but the “emotional exhilaration” that comes from playing would be absent, and eventually they would stop playing altogether. Those who had inventive imaginations before surgery would become “dull and uninspired.”

L'espressione sembra chiara, tradotta letteralmente, solo che non mi sembra coerente con la spiegazione che segue. Ci deve essere qualcosa che mi sfugge in quel "advise".

Cosa ne pensate?