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 ...

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 ...

In May 1951, a 35-year-old Boston woman who had been treated for years for ulcerative colitis and a variety of mental disorders — with little success — entered the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., ...

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 ...

My friend Jesper Vaczy Kragh has recently published an excellent book on the history of lobotomy in Denmark. Lobotomy was a psychosurgical treatment for mental illness that became popular during the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sound Portraits Productions, a nonprofit production house based in New York, is responsible for some of the more riveting “driveway moments” on National ...

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 ...

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