The orbital lobotomy was a surgery that gained popularity in the late 1940s as a way of treating the most dangerous mentally ...

The lobotomy was developed to treat severe mental ... frontal lobe to destroy the nerves and tissue. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949 for his invention. A year later, an American ...

He had hoped and perhaps expected to receive the Nobel Prize for this work ... temperamental chimp had inspired him to develop the lobotomy to treat mental illness. Moniz had an idea that some ...