•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. ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lobotomies have always been controversial, but they were widely performed for more than two decades to treat mental illness. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...