History Everyday on Instagram: "Howard Dully (November 30, 1948 – February 11, 2025) was one of the youngest survivors of the transorbital lobotomy, a procedure performed on him when he was 12 years old. Neurologist Walter Freeman had diagnosed Dully as suffering from childhood schizophrenia since age four, although numerous other medical and psychiatric professionals who had seen Dully did not detect a psychiatric disorder and instead blamed poor parenting by his stepmother. In 1960, at 12 year