Doctor feel good

• Autores: Lone Frank
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3171, 2018, págs. 42-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Frank re-evaluates psychiatrist Robert Heath's pioneering, controversial work, who wired up his patients' brains to zap their pleasure centres. Heath, the university's chief of neurology and psychiatry, explains how he treats schizophrenia by implanting electrodes deep in people's brains. If Heath's work is remembered at all, it is often shorn of the context of his era and he is judged by modern standards. Nevertheless, he would argue that this sincere pioneer's approach didn't differ that much from those of modern DBS researchers, albeit with more basic technology.