Archival photo reveals lobotomy at Alton State Hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These haunting before-and-after pictures show how a notorious medic persuaded his patients to have a lobotomy, a horrific practice which ruined the life of John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary. The ...

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 ...

The diagnosis of gender dysphoria bewitched the medical community like the brutal brain operation once did.

(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 ...

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 ...