Fried calamari. In the culinary arts, calamari is a recipe prepared with squid, usually (but not always) battered and deep-fried. Calamari is the Italian word for squid (singular: calamaro), and recipes for fried calamari are found in a number of Mediterranean cuisines.
Psychosurgery is the treatment of a psychiatric disorder using surgical techniques to destroy brain tissue and is now rarely used. It is a last-resort treatment for extreme, debilitating, psychiatric disorders.
How Lobotomies Work. The lobotomy is a type of neurosurgery, or surgery performed on the brain, known as psychosurgery. The idea behind psychosurgery is that severe forms of mental illness can be treated by changing the way that the brain works.