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 ...

In the history of medicine, few stories capture the dual nature of scientific progress and human tragedy quite like the infamous "lobotomobile." This traveling psychiatric clinic, which crisscrossed ...

The story of Eva Perón—the actress-turned-First Lady of Argentina—has been told numerous times. The Broadway musical Evita and the movie adaptation cover her rise to power and her untimely passing, ...

(CNN) -- Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was told he was going to the hospital for some tests. "I remember having big black swollen eyes one day and staying in the hospital for a few days ...

The story of Henry Molaison is a sad one. Known as Patient H.M. to the medical community, he lost the ability to create memories after he underwent a lobotomy to treat his seizures. He did earn a ...

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 ...

Over eight decades ago, JFK's troubled sister Rosemary was left disabled by a disastrous lobotomy ordered by her father. Two books examine the heartbreaking details of a dynasty's darkest secret More ...

Caroline Reilly is a writer from New England. Thomas Lanier Williams III was away at college when he received a letter from his parents informing him that his sister, Rose, had undergone a lobotomy — ...

When Christine Johnson was a little girl and learned her grandmother was "crazy" and that a lobotomy had left her "childlike," she pulled out her Barbies so Grandma Beulah could play. "No, dear, I'm ...

(CNN) -- Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was told he was going to the hospital for some tests. "I remember having big black swollen eyes one day and staying in the hospital for a few days ...