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 ...

A Nov. 21 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be an old poster reading “Are you depressed? Do you suffer from anxiety and migraines? You may need a lobotomy.” It includes ...

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 ...

My friend Jesper Vaczy Kragh has recently published an excellent book on the history of lobotomy in Denmark. Lobotomy was a psychosurgical treatment for mental illness that became popular during the ...

Lobotomies used to be a horrific way that doctors tried to treat patients with mental illness. Doctors thought those with mental illness had abnormal neural connections so severing them may help. More ...

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most ...