To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled ...

Now there was a time when people with mental problems received a very different kind of intervention. Later today on NPR's "All Things Considered," we're meeting a man named Howard Dully, who went ...

Undated -- The issue has resurfaced following the release of a new book that contends the crude brain surgery only helped about 10 percent of the estimated 50,000 Americans who received lobotomies ...

Reading Richard McNally’s review of “Desperate Remedies” (Books, May 14), I am reminded that the frontal lobotomy, now considered barbaric, was worthy of a Nobel Prize in my grandparents’ era. I have ...