•The arguments: A new book contends the brain surgery actually helped about 10 percent of patients. But relatives of lobotomy patients want the Nobel Prize revoked from the inventor of the procedure. ...

Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. In her new memoir, The Nine of Us, Jean Kennedy Smith, 86, writes about her eldest sister Rosemary, who underwent a ...

The lobotomy, once a widely used method for treating mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, is generating fresh controversy 30 years after doctors stopped performing the procedure now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a Catholic facility for the mentally ...

A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Lobotomies became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for certain ...