To start with: No. You should not have (or perform) a lobotomy. It would be impossible to find a surgeon willing to take on the procedure, and whatever is wrong with you would be better handled ...

There’s a growing pushback against the practice of transgender surgery on minors at the state level. And it now appears Supreme Court justices are also questioning state-level efforts to silence ...

Reading Richard McNally’s review of “Desperate Remedies” (Books, May 14), I am reminded that the frontal lobotomy, now considered barbaric, was worthy of a Nobel Prize in my grandparents’ era. I have ...

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 ...