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 ...

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 ...

To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled ...

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 ...

Medical procedures sure have changed over the years. Here are several once-popular medical surgeries that are now illegal.

"He was searching for the best for his family," author Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff says of Joe Kennedy's decision to order his daughter's lobotomy Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Rosemary Kennedy inspired sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver to create the Special Olympics Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Rosemary Kennedy was the eldest ...