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» 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

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

» Father of the Lobotomy
   Review of a Washington Post article about Walter Freeman.
   http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-122.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 medica
   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5014080

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

» 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

» 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/

» Rotten.com - Lobotomy
   Story taking a very pessimistic view of lobotomies.
   http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/lobotomy/

» Sabbatini, R.M.E.: The History of Psychosurgery
   Long article published in Brain and Mind Magazine, 1(2), June/August 1997.
   http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/historia/psicocirg_i.htm

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