Antonio Egas Moniz won a 1949 Nobel Prize for introducing this procedure that affects the prefrontal lobes
[DOC] [TLE] The rise & fall of the prefrontal lobotomy | Mo Costandi [PAR] Jul 24, 2007 ... Lobotomy (from the Greek lobos, meaning lobes of the brain, and tomos, 
meaning cut) ... procedure in which the connections the prefrontal cortex and ... at 
that time by the Portugese neuropsychiatrist Antonio Egas Moniz, ...