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Author Archives: syoung
Boxing Their Brains Out
Even when I became a neurosurgeon it was some time before I accepted that the aim of boxing is to inflict brain damage. My father had been an enthusiastic amateur boxer and former army champion and his passion for the … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing Issues
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Lobotomy Ireland
Between 1951 and 1960, over seven hundred brain operations called frontal lobotomy were carried out on psychiatric patients at the Richmond Hospital in Dublin. At the time many doctors considered it a crude procedure but now it seems unbelievably so. … Continue reading
Posted in Neurosurgery
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Steven Young FRCS. Consultant Neurosurgeon 