Lobotomies appear in films like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Shutter Island.' It was a surgery that attempted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "A lobotomy," Medical News Today explains, "is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal ...

Antônio Egas Moniz (1874-1955) of Portugal was an ambitious and multitalented person -- a neurologist, political figure, and man of letters. By the 1930s he was already known for his successful ...

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 ...