Mental Health News

July 13, 2005

Lobotomies Back in Spotlight

The lobotomy, once a widely used method for treating mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, is generating fresh controversy 30 years after doctors stopped performing the procedure now viewed as barbaric. (AP)

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