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Jeff Goldblum Talks About Doing Drugs as a Teen and, Uhhh, Lobotomies
We interviewed the internet’s favorite daddy about everything from his jazz career to his recent VICE Studios movie, ‘The Mountain’.
Rosemary Kennedy and the Legacy of Mental Illness
In 1941, a lobotomy left Rosemary Kennedy permanently incapacitated. Two new books this month explore what has and hasn't changed about the way we treat mental illness more than 70 years later.
Psychiatry's Most Promising New Treatment Is a Pacemaker For the Brain
And scientists have the lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy to thank.
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A History of the Ice Pick Lobotomy
Lobotomy is a procedure that involves slicing tiny slivers through the frontal lobes of the brain, reached through holes bored in the top of the skull. It was an early way psychiatrists thought they could dramatically alleviate madness and suffering in pe
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