leukotomy/Lobotomy - leukotomy is the surgical operation of interrupting the pathways of white nerve fibers within the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

Moniz's conclusion was this: "Prefrontal leukotomy is a simple operation, always safe, which may prove to be an effective surgical treatment in certain cases of mental disorder.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "cut/slice") is a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "cut/slice").    From Wordnik.com.  [dailycomic Diary Entry] Reference

In 1936 Moniz published his first report on prefrontal leukotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

The leukotomy soon achieved a good reputation in, among other countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

JL: Clinical observations concerning schizophrenic patients treated by prefrontal leukotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

The world's first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Swayze II, VW: Frontal leukotomy and related psychosurgical procedures in the era before antipsychotics (1935-1954): A historical overview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

Lobotomy was the name given to a prefrontal leukotomy in which the nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobe with other parts of the brain were cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Egas Moniz introduced a surgical operation, prefrontal leukotomy, which after an initial period came to be used particularly in the treatment of schizophrenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

However, there is no doubt that it really was Moniz who initiated and managed to inspire enthusiasm for the importance of prefrontal leukotomy in the treatment of certain psychoses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

At that time there did not exist any effective treatment whatsoever for schizophrenia, and the leukotomy managed at least to make life more endurable for the patients and their surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference

Hypnoconditioning, the Quiet Treatment, brainburning, transorbital leukotomy, lobectomy -- all of the products of that diseased period of humanity's thinking when men tampered with the brains of other men in an effort to cure psychic states.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

These trials did not attract much attention, but at a neurology conference in London in 1935, at which the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz participated, Jacobsen & Fulton presented data from operations on two chimpanzees which, after a leukotomy, managed to make mistakes without becoming aggressive, something which they had not managed to do before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize] Reference