The aftermath of a lobotomy could range from vast improvements to devastating effects. Its purpose was to reduce anxiety, agitation, and excess emotion. But many people ended up losing their ...

She had a few physical side effects such as nausea and disorientation ... of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor Walter Freeman ...

As with the lobotomy, the side effects of this practice came to be discovered with time. And accusations of inappropriate use -- to "cure" homosexuality, for example, or psoriasis -- increased.