Lobotomy is a surgical procedure performed on the brain. The brain has several lobes, each with different functions. The frontal lobe was the part of the brain targeted in the standard lobotomy ...

Thirty years after doctors stopped performing lobotomies to treat mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, relatives of patients who suffered after undergoing the procedure want the Nobel ...

Someday — soon — society is going to view so-called “gender affirming care” in the same way we now view forced lobotomies ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most horrifying medical treatments of the 20th century was carried out not clandestinely, but with the approval of the medical establishment, the media and the public. Known as the ...

When she was just 23, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a relatively new procedure – a prefrontal lobotomy – that was ordered by her father in an attempt to ease her emotional outbursts. Instead, the surgery ...

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 ...

Lobotomy used to be an accepted form of treatment for people who suffered from mental illness. We play an excerpt from a report on one man's lobotomy that will air later Wednesday on All Things ...

These haunting before-and-after pictures show how a notorious medic persuaded his patients to have a lobotomy, a horrific practice which ruined the life of John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary. The ...

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 ...