INSKEEP: Howard Dully had a lobotomy in 1960 when he was 12 years old. He had no memory of the operation, so two years ago he set out to learn everything he could about the procedure and later ...

Transorbital lobotomy. A surgeon inserted a leucotome through the eye socket and drove it through a thin layer of bone with a mallet to access the brain. These procedures are no longer performed ...

An estimated 50,000 lobotomies were performed across the U.S. between 1936 and the late 1950s. At least 3500 of them were done by one man, Walter Jackson Freeman, dubbed the father of the lobotomy ...

Doctors developed the lobotomy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at a time when there were no drug therapies for mental health disorders, and psychotherapy was still in its early stages.

These haunting before-and-after pictures show how a notorious medic persuaded his patients to have a lobotomy ... Despite having no formal surgical training, Freeman performed over 3,400 ...

He had no relationship with his stepmother and never discussed the lobotomy with his father. But he always thought that someday he would talk to them and get some answers. Then, in 2000, his ...

The constant surveillance of modern life could worsen our brain function in ways we don't fully understand, disturbing studies suggest When lobotomy was invented, there were no good ways to treat ...

By the late 1930s doctors were reporting many lobotomy patients were left childlike, apathetic and withdrawn — not unlike the depiction in the novel and movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." ...

It's true that more than 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. in the late 1940s and early 1950s by inserting a medical instrument resembling an ice pick through patients' eye sockets and ...

Egas Moniz, the inventor of the controversial lobotomy technique for treating mentally ill patients (particularly people with schizophrenia), was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1949 for his work.