Surgery of the soul

I have finished a two week stint performing lobotomies for the Secret Cinema. I could do them in my sleep now.

See pics of me severing the connections in the frontal lobe here – or catch me on Russian television and in this small Youtube video. Read all about the rise and fall of the transorbital lobotomy in an extended blog post I wrote for Guerilla Science here.

Plus, we staged some very disturbing ECT performances. However ECT, unlike the lobotomy, is still widely used – more than a million people  still undergo the treatment every year. We are now starting to uncover the biochemical and neurological reasons why – read more about the treatment in my extended post on the topic for GS here. Ask yourself this: If all else failed, would you choose to burn away the connections in your mind if it took the pain away?