The dark history of the lobotomy began in the early 20th century. The earliest version of the procedure involved drilling a hole into a person's skull and injecting ethanol into the brain to ...

Moniz's first lobotomy procedures involved cutting a hole in the skull and injecting ethanol into the brain to destroy the fibers that connected the frontal lobe to other parts of the brain.

The frontal lobe was the part of the brain targeted in the standard lobotomy operations practiced in the 1940s and 1950s. This surgery consisted of making holes in the skull, removing some brain ...

Share on Pinterest A surgeon using a brace and bit to drill into a patient’s skull before performing a lobotomy, at a mental hospital in England, November 1946. Kurt Hutton/Getty Images The word ...

It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US ... Surgeons would drill a pair of holes into the skull, either at the side or top, and push a sharp instrument - a leucotome ...

The first lobotomy was performed by a Portuguese neurologist who drilled holes into the human skull. But it wasn't until an American psychiatrist adapted the procedure — using an icepick and ...

Sure enough, they found holes in her skull consistent with a prefrontal lobotomy. Their research also unearthed evidence that the procedure had been performed by prominent neurosurgeon James L.