That's all Dully can remember of the transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy performed on him more than 40 years ago. Many in the medical community consider lobotomies barbaric by today's standards ...

In the 1940s Dr. Walter Freeman gained fame for perfecting the lobotomy, then hailed as a miracle cure for the severely mentally ill. But within a few years, lobotomy was labeled one of the most ...