First introduced in the 1930s, this highly traumatic brain procedure was once seen as a miracle cure for mental illness. Share on Pinterest Pepino de Mar studio/Stocksy United Though rarely performed ...

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 lobotomy — ...

A lobotomy (leucotomy) is a psychosurgical procedure that involves severing or destroying the nerve fibers connecting the ...

It was decreed “the worst idea on the mind” in history in a public debate at the Royal Institution in 2006. Yet it seemed like such a good idea at the time—so good, it won its devisor the Nobel Prize.

Throughout the history of medicine, there have been few surgical practices more barbaric and cruel yet sometimes surprisingly helpful than the lobotomy. Famous lobotomy patients range from children of ...

In the mid-1930s, when Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz pioneered a method for severing brain tissue to treat psychiatric disorders, he was seen as a visionary. Treatments for severe mental ...

If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration -- well, it wasn't. That's exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies ...

(CNN) -- Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was told he was going to the hospital for some tests. "I remember having big black swollen eyes one day and staying in the hospital for a few days ...