Some patients seemed to show improvements after the procedure, but others suffered severe cognitive and emotional impairments. The dark history of the lobotomy began in the early 20th century.

Following the lobotomy, Rosemary was sent to live at a ... At one point, Nancy asked the matriarch, "What do you think the worst tragedy has been?" "And she described Rose as kind of pausing ...

Moniz had an idea that some forms of mental illness were caused by an abnormal sort of stickiness in nerve cells, causing neural impulses to get stuck and the patient to repeatedly experience the ...