Lobotomy

relationships

John F. Kennedy’s sister Rosemary Kennedy underwent a lobotomy in the 1940s, a drastic neurosurgical procedure intended to address severe intellectual disability and behaviora...

history-psychiatry

Lobotomy was a psychiatric surgical procedure that severed connections between the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions, aiming to reduce severe emotional agitation and dis...

Medical History and Bioethics

Walter Freeman was an American neurosurgeon whose name is inextricably linked with the transorbital lobotomy, a psychiatric procedure popularized in the mid-20th century. This p...

healthcare

Lobotomy survivors are individuals who lived through the transorbital or standard prefrontal lobotomy procedures, predominantly between the 1930s and 1960s. These procedures wer...