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

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

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 ...

For example, after Freeman gave President John F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary a lobotomy, she was left permanently incapacitated. Another case involved a young boy named Henry Molaison.

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 ...

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 her lobotomy, she wrote to her brother from the hospital: “I’m trying not to die, making every effort possible not to do so. If I die you will know that I miss you twenty-four hours a ...