Brain surgery is a tempting way to tackle insanity. When it works, the results are quick and dramatic. Recently surgeons have been concentrating on the front part of the brain, isolating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain (prefrontal lobotomy), or cutting part of it out (topectomy). Trying a new approach, Vienna-born Neurologist Ernest A. Spiegel and Brain Surgeon Henry T. Wycis, both of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided to work on the thalamus, at the base of the brain.
The thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to &...
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