Word: lobes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...
...Actor Zachary (Mildred Pierce) Scott returned from a Mexican fishing trip wearing a plain gold earring in his pierced left ear lobe. Said Mrs. Scott: "There has never been the slightest unpleasantness about it. Of course, it attracts attention, particularly from the ladies. Everybody seems to enjoy...
...fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
...hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas evidently is deep in the frontal lobe of the brain: current applied here will make him refuse bananas...
Check, Please. In Montgomery, Ala., a jury ordered Restaurateur Mike Miaoulis to pay $4,542 damages to a friend whose ear lobe he had bitten off in a fight...