This book tells the story of one of medicine's most (in) famous treatments: the neurosurgical
operation commonly known as lobotomy. The book itself is the serendipitous result of a …

Surgery of the mind has a rather checkered past. Though its history begins with the
prehistoric trephination of skulls to allow “evil spirits” to escape, the early-to mid-20th century …

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This chapter first gives an overview of possible philosophical positions on freedom and
determinism (incompatibilism vs. compatibilism) based on a text by Ansgar Beckermann. It …

As the “innervated universe” of our body, the brain, holds the secrets determining humanity,
over centuries there was a huge necessity to understand its complexity and ongoing …