BBC - Radio 4 - Brain Surgery to Cure the Mind - 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
Father of the Lobotomy - Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman. - http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.htm
Rotten.com - Lobotomy - Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies. - http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/
Psychosurgery - Massachusetts General Hospital - 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
NPR : 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey - 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
Psychosurgery.org - 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/