Antonio Egas Moniz won a 1949 Nobel Prize for introducing this procedure that affects the prefrontal lobes
The procedure enjoyed a brief vogue, and in 1949 he received the 
Nobel Prize, "for his... [DOC] [TLE] Lobotomy - Wikipedia [PAR] Lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as 
a leukotomy or ...