Jen QuintanainILLUMINATIONRosemary Kennedy Endured a Devastating Lobotomy at Age 23Was this another dark chapter in the alleged Kennedy curse?6d ago4
HR NEWSHow António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949The lobotomy, brainchild of António Egas Moniz and enthusiastically championed by Walter Freeman, won a Nobel Prize in 1949. This, despite…Jul 7Jul 7
Curing Crime:inShort HistoryShock Therapies in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Electrocuting & Mutilating BrainsWhether through the ice-pick or the drill, Nurse Ratched uses lobotomy to subjugate patients to her will. Mental institutions really used…Mar 25, 20234Mar 25, 20234
Curing Crime:inShort HistoryCutting Through The Problem: Early Enthusiasm for LobotomyLobotomy Gets Enthusiastically Endorsed 1935–1944Jun 26Jun 26
Jen QuintanainILLUMINATIONRosemary Kennedy Endured a Devastating Lobotomy at Age 23Was this another dark chapter in the alleged Kennedy curse?6d ago4
HR NEWSHow António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949The lobotomy, brainchild of António Egas Moniz and enthusiastically championed by Walter Freeman, won a Nobel Prize in 1949. This, despite…Jul 7
Curing Crime:inShort HistoryShock Therapies in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Electrocuting & Mutilating BrainsWhether through the ice-pick or the drill, Nurse Ratched uses lobotomy to subjugate patients to her will. Mental institutions really used…Mar 25, 20234
Curing Crime:inShort HistoryCutting Through The Problem: Early Enthusiasm for LobotomyLobotomy Gets Enthusiastically Endorsed 1935–1944Jun 26
Tiny Wonder3 Unbelievable Medical Procedures from History: Trepanation, Bloodletting, and LobotomyThroughout history, people have been willing to try just about anything to cure their illnesses, even if it meant undergoing dangerous and…Feb 21, 20231
Shawn HernandezThe science of a lobotomyA lobotomy is defined as: “ a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in…Feb 15, 20192
Zara ShabirThe Kennedy Curse Part 3: Accidents & TragediesAccidents, tragedies and a lobotomy continue to taint the Kennedy legacy. Is the family cursed?Jan 25