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 ...

Howard Dully got a lobotomy at age 12. "By some miracle, it didn't turn me into a zombie, or crush my spirit, or kill me," he told NPR in 2005 as an adult. "But it did affect me deeply." Lobotomies ...

It was the most brutal, barbaric and infamous medical procedure of all time: an icepick hammered through the eye socket into the brain and “wriggled around”, often leaving the patient in a vegetative ...