In November 1941, Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy’s brain at a facility in upstate New York. A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him ...

James Watts, had been researching a neurological procedure that was said to cure people who were physically and mentally disabled. That operation was the controversial lobotomy. When it was first ...

Nobody remembers the woman’s name, but she was the first victim of the lobotomy. And the first step to arguably the most controversial Nobel Prize ever awarded. When Moniz first published his ...