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What's Going On In Your Head?

What's Going On In Your Head?

In 1935, one neurologist drilled a hole into someone's head. Here's what happened...

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Jun 13, 2021
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The Rise and Fall of the Lobotomy

The frontal lobotomy is a form of brain surgery in which a hole is drilled into your skull through your nose. Then, the frontal lobe of your brain is gently sliced with an icepick1. The procedure was invented by a Portuguese neurologist called António Egas Moniz in 1935. He discovered that if you took people with extreme …

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