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 ...

You'll never look at an ice pick the same way again. The allure of lobotomies is understandable: it was a solution to the problem of housing the mentally ill in asylums — the facilities had become ...

Based on: Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. By Walter Freeman, M.D., Ph.D., and James W ...

Over the past several years, in many conversations and writings, I have repeatedly decried the growing excesses of impromptu medicine. Yet it has recently been brought to my attention that these ...

As the father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic ...

To the Editor of the CRIMSON: Last year when I went to the Hygiene Department for a routine excuse from physical training, I was stealthily given some sort of sleep drug. Later, I discovered that ...

In the history of medicine, few stories capture the dual nature of scientific progress and human tragedy quite like the infamous "lobotomobile." This traveling psychiatric clinic, which crisscrossed ...