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

In 1945, he refined the procedure again, creating the transorbital lobotomy, which resulted in a scar-free surgery. Major U.S. medical centers like Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and the University of ...

Though his follow-up was mainly within the first few days of surgery and his determination ... of such radical treatments as shock therapy and lobotomy. In the United States, neurology professor ...