Lobotomy

The first famous person was Phineas Gage, a railroad worker who had a serious accident resulting from an iron bar piercing through one side of his skill coming out the other. This amazing man lived.

By the 1950's the tide had turned. Lobotomies did not produce the results the medical community was looking for. At best, they only helped one third of all patients, while irreversible brain damage was often the outcome.

Freeman's Icepick surgery could be performed in 10 minutes. The procedure was gruesome and experimental. There was no scientific prove that lobotomies helped patients at all.

Walter Freeman a neurologist, and neurosurgeon James Watts began to vigorously promote the lobotomy and it became mainstream treatment for mental patients for the next two decades.

The gruesome history of the lobotomy and its impact on America as a whole. Includes properly cited sources.

This is a short article about the surgical operation called lobotomy, which involves cutting the white matter from the front of the brain, disconnecting the thalamus from the frontal lobe of the brain.

Everything you ever wanted to know about lobotomies but were afraid to ask.

Episode 5 of "The Kennedys" looks at civil rights, focusing on the efforts of James Meredith, an African American, to enroll at segregated Ole Miss; Jackie and her addiction to amphetamines; Joe Kennedy's stroke; and Rosemary's lobotomy.

Nature poetry. This is something I wrote by stringing together various song titles and book titles. The last line of each stanza is solely mine.

We are celebrating fifty years of beaming radio waves and other data into space. Ever wonder what else has slipped through?

The former Lady Chamberlain meets her nightmares face to face, when while locked up inside of Lovecroft, she is hounded by the corpse of her dead husband whom she allegedly murder many months ago.