It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

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A satirical advertisement for lobotomy, a discredited surgical treatment for mental illness widely performed in the mid-20th century, was intended to sell enamel pins, its creator said ...

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 ...

Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold solution—the frontal lobotomy. Freeman didn’t invent the procedure, but he made it into a ...

In April 2023, a Twitter post discussed the inventor of the lobotomy and how he was lauded for what was a controversial and often poorly done procedure. Eli David, who also has expressed anti ...

Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a ...