lobotomy

When she was 23, Rosemary was one of the first people to receive a prefrontal lobotomy, but its failure left her permanently incapacitated.

The lobotomy was performed by a local GP or surgeon and one patient is known to have died.

Its story is as relevant today as when the lobotomy craze was at its height.

THE END OF FREEMAN'S LOBOTOMY AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN PSYCHOSURGERY

Lobotomy involved severing connections in the brain's prefrontal lobe with an implement resembling an icepick (a leucotome).

Sternburg weaves her evolving understanding of the history and science of lobotomy into the story of her family in a way that makes their decisions seem understandable and even inevitable.

Then there's someone undergoing a lobotomy to cure him of an urge to pinch bums.

And while Joe may have facilitated Rosemary's lobotomy, Rose abdicated her responsibility as a mother when she let Rosemary be dropped out of their lives for the next 20 years.

I think I still might need to have a frontal lobotomy to get the song It's A Small World After All out of my head.

Opened in 1848, electric shock treatment, introduced there in 1941, was among the options tried before a lobotomy.

She's only been back a couple of weeks but we assume Jane had a frontal lobotomy while she was away.

As a former bureaucrat, congressional staffer, and private-sector policy person for the last five decades, I can attest to how much bad American policy goes uncorrected by the Congress, as detailed in Paul Glastris's article "The Big Lobotomy" (June/ July/August 2014).