António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for developing this technique, which was premised on a "fixed arrangement of connections" that causes feedback loops.
Howard Dully wrote a 2007 memoir about his experience as one of the youngest people to undergo this procedure, and a man who performed it publicly demonstrated a "two-handed" technique. John Fulton's research on the effects of this on chimpanzees inspired its first use with humans. António Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for developing this technique, which was premised on a "fixed arrangement of connections" that causes feedback loops. The transorbital version of this procedure was popularized in the United States by (*) Walter Freeman, who believed it worked by eliminating excessive emotion in the patient. Freeman replaced the fluid and trocar of Ammarro Fiamberti's technique with an icepick or two and performed this procedure on thousands of people including Rosemary Kennedy. For 10 points, name this operation which removes or destroys part of the white matter in the frontal lobe of the brain.
Howard Dully wrote a 2007 memoir about his experience as one of the youngest people to undergo this procedure, and a man who performed it publicly demonstrated a "two-handed" technique.
lobotomy (or leucotomy)