During his visits to the hospital, he learned about a procedure, a "lobotomy" in which, according to the book, a surgeon would drill a hole in the skull and sever "certain connections in the ...

In November 1941, Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy’s brain at a facility in upstate New York. A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him ...

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 ...