AHORRENDOUS childhood is bad enough, but how does a child understand being given one of the most frightening operations imaginable. How does he deal with undergoing surgery that was used for the most ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

Listen • 5:18 20160814_atc_lobotomy_and_memory.mp3 The story of Henry Molaison is a sad one. Known as Patient H.M. to the medical community, he lost the ability to create memories after he underwent a ...

Brain surgery as a means of improving mental health was first seized upon in 1890s by German researcher Freiderich Golz who carried out experiments on dogs and found them to be calmer and less ...

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 ...