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.

Lobotomy is a surgical procedure performed on ... removing a part of the frontal lobe of the patient's brain through a hole or holes made in the skull. Many people with depression and ...

Lobotomies involved separating tissue in an area called the prefrontal cortex in one of two primary ways: Frontal lobotomy. A surgeon drilled a hole into each side of the skull and cut through ...

The fire was like “a lobotomy of the Brazilian memory,” said Marina Silva, a former environment minister and candidate in the upcoming presidential election, according to the Guardian.