It has been a long time since the first lobotomy was performed in the United States in 1936. The last recorded lobotomy was in 1967. By then, the dangerous and controversial surgical procedure was ...

This terrible need for treatment cleared the path for widespread acceptance of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman threw ...

In the late 1930s and 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy took off, its popularity caused by the same factors that led to the acceptance of lobotomy. During World War II, interest in the treatment ...

“It seems like he’s had, you know, a total lobotomy or heart transplant,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, told CNN in an interview on Monday morning. Van Hollen previously ...

Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has declared that he will oppose the proposal. "Unless I get a lobotomy Monday that causes me to forget what I’ve witnessed the past 12 years, I’ll be a NO on the CR this ...