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 ...

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 ...

In 1949 lobotomy was hailed as a medical miracle. But images of zombielike patients and surgeons with ice picks soon put an end to the practice. Now, however, the practitioners have refined their ...

It's true that more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s by inserting a medical instrument resembling an ice pick through patients' eye sockets and into ...

In the U.S., lobotomies are no longer used as surgery to treat psychiatric problems. Some other types of psychosurgery are still performed when other treatments have failed. Few medical procedures in ...

The lobotomy, once a widely used method for treating mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, is generating fresh controversy 30 years after doctors stopped performing the procedure now ...

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 ...

This week on the podcast, we remember Howard Dully, who died earlier this year. He was given a lobotomy in 1960 when he was just 12 years old. In this documentary, he goes in search of the story ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S. In 1936, neurologist Walter Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S. It was widely seen as a miraculous ...