Scientific interest reawakened after a national commission to investigate the health of human beings who had undergone such surgeries reported that no deficits in psychological health could be traced ...

Source: Illustrated by Daniel A. Becker (Invisible Ink Studio) for Michael Fontaine, © D.A. Becker/M.Fontaine, 2020 The world's first psychosurgery was performed 500 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: iStock/Getty Images) Two barely-there lines above the outer edges of her eyebrows mark where surgeons screwed a halo ...

In the early 20th century, there were a few psychiatrists ― perhaps intrepid, perhaps deluded ― who, despite no formal surgical training, were impelled to breach their patients' skulls. Inspired by ...

A brain surgeon begins an anterior cingulotomy by drilling a small hole into a patient's skull. The surgeon then inserts a tiny blade, cutting a path through brain tissue, then inserts a probe past ...

Psychosurgery is making a comeback. Recently published case series have shown encouraging results of so-called deep brain stimulation (DBS) in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder, ...

The surgeon’s knife can reach into the brain to sever the tensions which underlie a psychopathic personality. This drastic method of rescuing psychotic patients from complete insanity is not exactly a ...

SURGICAL operations on the brain for the treatment of functional mental disorder continue to disturb the conscience of many thoughtful and sympathetic persons, physicians and others. It is timely and ...

Psychosurgery is still a bad word, long after the headline disaster of its ice-pick lobotomies. Recent U.S. emphasis has been on psychiatry and pharmaceuticals, with their respective limitations and ...