Abstract

'...If New Orleans is a city with an overripe id, it is also home to Tulane University Medical School and its unique department of neurology and psychiatry.... In 1950, [Dr. Robert G.] Heath first put depth electrodes into the brain of a human mental patient.... His electrodes charted the circuitry of pain in some of the illest brains in Louisiana. It was the first time electrodes had been used inside human brain tissue, and so Heath's operations were controversial, to say the least