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The Lobotomy procedure was created by the Portuguese Neurologist, Egas Moniz. He concluded that by splitting the fibers of the brain by the separate lobes, there will be a reduction in irrational behavior from the patient. He later went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his work, even though there was lack of evidence to support his surgery. His idea steamed from research of a decrease in neurosis in chimpanzees when splitting the frontal cortex from the rest of the brain.

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