The lobotomy was once promoted as a breakthrough treatment for mental illness, even earning its creator a Nobel Prize. In the U.S., the procedure became especially popular as doctors searched for ways ...

Humanity Cut the Brain to Cure 'Mental Illness'Many people imagine the current clinical scene of talking to a doctor while taking medication when they hear the word 'psychiatry'.However, if you look ...

Howard Dully got a lobotomy at age 12. "By some miracle, it didn't turn me into a zombie, or crush my spirit, or kill me," he told NPR in 2005 as an adult. "But it did affect me deeply." Lobotomies ...

In the early 20th century we had very little understanding of mental illness and how to treat it. Into this knowledge vacuum stepped Walter Freeman, a charismatic American neurologist with a bold ...

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 ...

When conventional non-invasive treatments for psychiatric diseases fail, clinicians inevitably have to consider brain surgery. However, brain surgery for psychiatric diseases has long been taboo among ...

A look at the brain like you've never seen it before Link Copied! At the brain bank in Denmark's Bispebjerg Hospital, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the chance to examine a full healthy brain and a brain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 40,000 lobotomies were performed in the US before they were replaced by antipsychotic medication.National Library of Medicine ...