The lobotomy was developed to treat severe mental health conditions like schizophrenia, treatment-resistant depression, and certain personality disorders. It consists of removing a portion of a ...

In 1936 Moniz published the very positive results of his first 20 operations on patients who had suffered from anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Though his follow-up was mainly within the ...

They did not base their ideas on those of the ancients, but rather on the work of a Hungarian psychiatrist who had found that epilepsy and schizophrenia seem to have opposite chemical effects on ...