Neurologist Egas Moniz believed that replicating this in humans could cure mental illness— leading to one of the most controversial and destructive medical treatments of the 20th century: the lobotomy ...

On December 16th, 2024, TikTok [1] user @rwryyyy posted the earliest known Lobotomy Iron Man meme, which features gameplay footage of Iron Man's character in the Marvel Rivals hero shooter doing ...

13, 1918. While she attended a special boarding school for students with learning difficulties, Rosemary had behavioral issues that led to her father's decision to have her undergo a prefrontal ...

A Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) is a complex surgery involving several procedures during one operation. It is often performed to treat pancreatic cancer. It will take time for the ...

Here, we discuss convergent research from animal models to human disease that implicates the prefrontal cortex (PFC) as a key regulator in social cognition, suggesting that disruptions in prefrontal ...

The OATS (osteoarticular transfer system) procedure is a type of surgical procedure called mosaicplasty that is used to treat a knee injury called focal cartilage defects. OATS is one technique of ...

The prefrontal cortex (PFC), which plays key roles in many higher cognitive processes, is a hierarchical system consisting of multi-scale organizations. Optimizing the working state at each scale is ...

There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends. Yet in a triumph of sentimentality, doom never really happens. Only the right dragons are ...

A vasectomy is a simple, generally permanent procedure to prevent pregnancy. It's the most effective form of birth control other than abstinence. During the brief procedure, your surgeon will ...

Innovation in surgery has contributed to progress in medicine and to enhanced longevity and quality of life. It has led to new devices and procedures, such as heart valves and organ transplants, yet ...