Two months after lobotomy, two measurements revealed values of 12.2 and 14.7, averaging 13.5 mg. per twenty-four hours. Glucose Metabolism.

An estimated 50,000 lobotomies were performed across the U.S. between 1936 and the late 1950s. At least 3500 of them were done by one man, Walter Jackson Freeman, dubbed the father of the lobotomy ...

Lobotomy is the severing of connections between parts of the brain. Learn about the necessity, benefits, and dangers of this procedure.

Lobotomy’s reputation once ran so high that the Nobel committee awarded the prize in Medicine and Physiology to its inventor, the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, in 1949. But less than a decade ...

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 ...

Exclusive '30s star suffered two nervous breakdowns, lobotomy after facing a series of tragedies: book The Oscar winner is the subject of a biography, 'The Accidental Star – The Life and Films ...

While they had spent time with Rosemary in the later years of her life, the two-decade period after her 1941 lobotomy — when her siblings didn't see her or know where she was — has long ...

After the lobotomy, when Rosemary moved to Saint Coletta’s, she stopped visiting Hyannis Port — the lack of visits didn't go unnoticed by neighbors, Storey says, though world events meant that ...