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•The arguments: A new book contends the brain surgery actually helped about 10 percent of patients. But relatives of lobotomy patients want the Nobel Prize revoked from the inventor of the procedure. ...

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 ...

The 1948 annual report of the Connecticut State Hospital sounds what’s intended as an optimistic note. A growing number of its patients are undergoing lobotomies — 550 in the previous year. In fact, ...

Brain surgery as a means of improving mental health was first seized upon in 1890s by German researcher Freiderich Golz who carried out experiments on dogs and found them to be calmer and less ...

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 ...