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 ...

The 1948 annual report of the Connecticut State Hospital sounds what’s intended as an optimistic note. A growing number of its patients are undergoing lobotomies — 550 in the previous year. In fact, ...

After World War II, many veterans suffered post-traumatic stress and other mental illnesses. Now, long-buried documents have come to light that reveal how nearly 2,000 of these soldiers who were given ...

In 1949, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for “one of the most important discoveries ever made in psychiatric therapy.” The discovery was that surgically ...

What the documentary omits is that most lobotomized patients were women, although most institutionalized patients at the time were men. This gaping disparity, noted by scholars, is made more troubling ...

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 lobotomy to treat his seizures. He did earn a ...