Moniz performed the procedure for the first time in November 1935 in a Lisbon hospital. He drilled holes into his patient's ...

the sharp features in the front of your skull concentrate them, leading to damage to the frontal lobe. The inside of the front of your skull is hazardous terrain for delicate brain tissue. Credit: Fig ...

As organs go, the human brain is an odd one. It's remarkably big relative to our bodies, for starters. It's also wrinklier ...

Initial attempts to date Zlatý k?? based on the shape of her skull suggested she was at least 30,000 years old. Researchers now believe she lived more than 45,000 years ago. Use of images is ...

The researchers said most of the damage was found in the frontal lobe of the brain — beneath the part of the skull soccer players are taught to use to head the ball. “The potential effects of ...

First they gave a series of alcohol injections to the frontal lobe (through holes drilled in the skull). After seven patients, they switched to cutting the lobe with a wire. Nothing was removed ...