At least 3500 of them were done by one man, Walter Jackson Freeman, dubbed the father of the lobotomy. First hailed as brain surgery that cured intractable mental illnesses, the lobotomy was never ...

Lobotomy is a surgical procedure performed on the brain. The brain has several lobes, each with different functions. The frontal lobe was the part of the brain targeted in the standard lobotomy ...

It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Lobotomies became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for certain ...

A satirical advertisement for lobotomy, a discredited surgical treatment for mental illness widely performed in the mid-20th century, was intended to sell enamel pins, its creator said ...

During his visits to the hospital, he learned about a procedure, a "lobotomy" in which, according to the book, a surgeon would drill a hole in the skull and sever "certain connections in the ...

Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a ...

To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled ...

First, let's take a brief look at the history of lobotomies. The earliest lobotomy experiments in the 20th century took various forms, including: opening the skull and removing parts of the ...

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over ...