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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness Open in a new windowLink Details
- Book review by a professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
- http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/56/10/1318

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BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind Open in a new windowLink Details
- Brain surgery to treat people with psychiatric illness was virtually abandoned half a century ago, but recent progress in neuroscience is igniting renewed interest in this field. [28:55 streaming audio broadcast]
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/brainsurgery.shtml

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Father of the Lobotomy Open in a new windowLink Details
- Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
- http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm

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Rotten.com - Lobotomy Open in a new windowLink Details
- Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
- http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/

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Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital Open in a new windowLink Details
- Explores the historical background of psychosurgery and discusses the anatomic and physiologic basis for such procedures. Guidelines for the appropriate selection of surgical candidates is presented and the four most common psychosurgical procedures pract
- http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/Functional/psysurg.htm

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Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery Open in a new windowLink Details
- Long article published in Brain & Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
- http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm

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Better To Have a Bottle In Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy Open in a new windowLink Details
- Bryn Mawr student's paper about lobotomies.
- http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web1/lbrgler.html

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Nobelprize.org - Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize Open in a new windowLink Details
- Very long scholarly article describing lobotomies, who got them, and why.
- http://nobelprize.org/medicine/articles/moniz/

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NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey Open in a new windowLink Details
- Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has worked to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or ice-pick lobotomy. He interviews the son of the infamous doctor who did the procedure, examines his medic
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080

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Psychosurgery.org Open in a new windowLink Details
- This website tells the stories of people affected by having lobotomies done to them and works to educate about the procedure.
- http://www.psychosurgery.org/

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