It's true that more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s by inserting a medical instrument resembling an ice pick through patients' eye sockets and into ...

My friend Jesper Vaczy Kragh has recently published an excellent book on the history of lobotomy in Denmark. Lobotomy was a psychosurgical treatment for mental illness that became popular during the ...

Susan Heyward has joined the cast of The Boys Season 4 as Sister Sage, whose superpower is being the smartest human on the planet. “We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here” saw her get recruited to The ...

If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration – well, it wasn’t. That’s exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies ...

Amazon’s new show Lore dropped on Friday the 13th, and naturally, being the weirdo that I am, I watched them all in one sitting. Luckily, the show is an episodic anthology, meaning that each episode ...