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 ...

Thirty years after doctors stopped performing lobotomies to treat mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, relatives of patients who suffered after undergoing the procedure want the Nobel ...

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 ...

It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as "putting in a brain needle and stirring the works". So how did it come to be regarded ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most horrifying medical treatments of the 20th century was carried out not clandestinely, but with the approval of the medical establishment, the media and the public. Known as the ...

Once the largest and only federally-run mental hospital in the United States, St. Elizabeths now sits largely abandoned on a sprawling corner of Southeast. For years, D.C. has been promising big ...

DES MOINES - Nearly 60 years later, it's hard to understand why a doctor performed life-altering brain surgery on Dick Meredith, a young man with relatively mild mental problems. Meredith, who died in ...

Dick Meredith received a lobotomy at state institution in 1955 He died in September after choking on food he wasn%27t supposed to have State officials initially claimed he died of heart attack DES ...

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 30 ...

The story of Henry Molaison is a sad one. Known as Patient H.M. to the medical community, he lost the ability to create memories after he underwent a lobotomy to treat his seizures. He did earn a ...