The result of that quest is a radio documentary, “My Lobotomy,” which aired this week on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” program. In the documentary, ...

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most ...

The idea behind lobotomy was different. The Portuguese neurologist, Egas Moniz, believed that patients with obsessive behaviour were suffering from fixed circuits in the brain.

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 ...

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 ...

Lobotomy is the severing of connections between parts of the brain. Learn about the necessity, benefits, and dangers of this procedure.

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, but it has ...

A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery doctors developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to treat mental illness. Learn more here.