Doctors Played With Human Brains — And Called It Science Worst surgery in history (documentary)

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A lobotomy, or leucotomy as it was originally known, was a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.

The Barbaric surgery left many a shell of their former selves, and marks a dark point in mental health treatment.

Al though originally conceived in Portugal by Doctor Egas Moniz in the 1940s It would continue well into the 1960s under the hands of Walter freeman in the US.

The surgery would win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".

The surgery that shocked the world — lobotomy.
Once seen as a miracle cure, it left thousands silent, broken, and forgotten.
This documentary uncovers the terrifying truth behind one of the darkest chapters in medical history.

🧠 Was it science… or pure madness?

📽️ Watch till the end to discover real cases, shocking experiments, and the untold truth that mainstream media doesn’t show.