The lobotomy was introduced in 1936 by a Portuguese physician, Dr. Egas Moniz. Some 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. The original method, called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 40,000 lobotomies were performed in the US before they were replaced by antipsychotic medication.National Library of Medicine ...

On Mondays we read from your e-mails. And this week we focus on the enormous response to our show last week with Howard Dully. That followed the broadcast of his radio documentary "My Lobotomy." ...

It was hailed by the New York Times as "surgery of the soul," a groundbreaking medical procedure that promised hope to the most distressed mentally ill patients and their families. But what began as ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

If you thought that scene in Sucker Punch where the doctor gave lobotomies with an ice pick was artistic exaggeration – well, it wasn’t. That’s exactly how Walter Freeman, a popularizer of lobotomies ...

Troubled veterans of World War II were among the patients given lobotomies in the 1940s and 1950s. A recent Wall Street Journal series detailed how the Veterans Administration ordered about 2,000 of ...

Mental health professionals often feel helpless in the face of another’s extreme suffering. But we must exercise caution to ensure our interventions don’t inadvertently inflict additional pain. A ...

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 ...