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Lobotomy: Quick Facts

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Also Known As prefrontal leukotomy • leucotomy • frontal lobotomy

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A surgeon in mask and gown uses a brace and bit to drill into a patient's skull, assisted by a nurse, before performing a lobotomy in an operating room.
Illustration of a human skull in profile with the brain exposed, showing labeled regions such as the gyri, sulci, and lobes. An inset highlights the parietal, frontal, occipital, and temporal lobes in different colors.
Freeman, Walter Jackson, II
Lobotomy
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Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
Freeman, Walter Jackson, II
Walter Jackson Freeman II
American neurologist

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