Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the ...

He drilled holes into his patient's skull and injected pure alcohol into the frontal lobe to destroy the nerves and tissue. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949 for his invention.

First they gave a series of alcohol injections to the frontal lobe (through holes drilled in the skull). After seven patients, they switched to cutting the lobe with a wire. Nothing was removed ...

“lost a major part of what makes us who we are.....a portion of his frontal lobe,” his grandmother, Walli Carranza, shared in a Wednesday Facebook post. “Half of his right skull has to be ...

When lobotomy was used to treat psychiatric disorders, the procedure involved the removal or transection of part of the ...

She suffered a skull fracture and frontal lobe damage which resulted in major brain bleeding and swelling. Her family also stated the extent of her brain damage won't be known until she wakes up.