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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription, just $30 for a year or $: The orbital lobotomy was a surgery that gained popularity in the late 1940s as a way of treating the most dangerous mentally ill patients in asylums across the country, in fact it won a Nobel Prize for physiology in 1949. But within less than a decade, it was a scorned procedure that was banned in most places. How did it come about? Why was it banned? And how do we make sense of the thousands of lives that were ruined because of it? Want to support the channel? Here's how: Patreon: Channel Memberships: T-Shirts & Merch: Check out my 2nd channel, Joe Scott TMI: And my podcast channel, Conversations With Joe: You can listen to my podcast, Conversations With Joe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Spotify 👉 Apple Podcasts 👉 Google Podcasts 👉 Interested in getting a Tesla or going solar? Use my referral link and get discounts and perks: Follow me at all my places! Instagram: TikTok: @answerswithjoe Facebook: Twitter: TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:38 - Lobotomies In Detail 7:37 - The Phineas Gage Story 9:55 - The Second International Congress of Neurology 16:24 - Finding Lobotomy Alternatives 19:22 - Sponsor - Nebula
