•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. ...

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 ...

Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. In her new memoir, The Nine of Us, Jean Kennedy Smith, 86, writes about her eldest sister Rosemary, who underwent a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the U.S., lobotomies are no longer used as surgery to treat psychiatric problems. Some other types of psychosurgery are still performed when other treatments have failed. Few medical procedures in ...