Jose Delgado resurfaces

Jose Delgado, Direstor of Neuropsychiatry at Yale University Medical School in the 1960s and 70s, and later Professor of Neurobiology in Madrid, Spain, has resurfaced in this month's Scientific American where an article by John Horgan takes a largely uncritical look at his work implanting electrodes into animals and people. Read it here

A more critical interview with Jose Delgado can be found in an article by Swedish writers and artists Magnus Bartas and Fredrik Ekman in a 2001 issue of Cabinet Magazine.

"He looks at the clock and says that we only have five minutes left. But we do not want to abandon our questions about the patients. What happened to them? How long were the implants in their brains? Delgado now becomes somewhat vague. He says that it was other researchers that left the implants in for a long time, not him or Dr. Heath, and he does not recall which patients it was. The electrodes were taken out of his own patients after a couple of days and did not cause any injuries. "We killed maybe a few hundred neurons when we inserted the electrodes. But the brain has millions of neurons." More