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Under the bright lights of Alton State Hospital, a surgeon’s hands carefully work on the fragile structure of the human mind during a frontal lobe lobotomy. This rare, chilling report from the ...

Professor Øivind Torkildsen, Head of Section at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen and senior consultant at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital The author ...

"Greetings, Manager. I see that you've been slacking off while playing a few rounds of cards during our work hours. I am unfamiliar with playing cards myself, but I am able to modify this little game ...

A lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy. While the procedure has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream ...

First established in 1874 in Danvers, Massachusetts, Danvers State Hospital once had a good reputation for treating mental health patients. But over the decades, conditions at the asylum deteriorated, ...