(via TEDEd) In 1935, researchers found that after removing the frontal lobes of two chimps, they no longer experienced frustration or anxiety. Neurologist Egas Moniz believed that replicating this in ...

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 ...

As I explained in a recent post, the imprinted brain theory proposes that different parts of the brain are built to the specification of conflicting sets of genes. Specifically, the cortex—and the ...