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Why doctors used to think drilling into people's skulls could treat mental illness
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 12 months agoOver 40,000 lobotomies were performed in the US before they were replaced by antipsychotic...
What Is a Lobotomy?
Health via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA lobotomy is a surgical procedure that surgeons no longer perform, but that was thought to improve symptoms associated with conditions such as...
'Painkiller' fact vs. fiction: What the Netflix show got right about the opioid crisis, OxyContin,...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMatthew Broderick as Richard Sackler on Netflix's "Painkiller."Keri Anderson/Netflix Netflix's new...
Conservatives Are *Still* Trying To Censor Our History, So Here Are Just 13 Messed Up Things The US...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf you're from the US, chances are you spent lots of time studying US history in school. You...
Fright night: Halfway to Haunt happening Friday, Saturday
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoMONROE — Stelios “Spooky” Stylianou has taken a character he created and turned it into a haunted...
22 Historical Facts That Are Creepy, Weird, Or Just Plain Unbelievable
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 9 months agoRecently, Reddit user CivilReaction asked, "What’s a fact that sounds fake but is 100% true?" and...
America Has No Way to Take Care of Mentally Ill People
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOpponents of New York Mayor Eric Adam's plan to involuntarily send mentally-ill homeless people to...
Shutter Island explained: What happened to Teddy?
Digital Spy via AOL· 1 year agoWhat happened at the end of Shutter Island?Paramount Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including suicide. Shutter Island spoilers...
Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn deep brain stimulation, electrodes – the pale white lines – are implanted into a patient's brain...
The artist who saved Britain’s stigmatised psychiatric patients
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 week agoIn the early 1960s, artist Charles Lutyens was in the middle of a crisis. Having divorced his first...