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António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz GCSE GCIB (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz (Portuguese: [ˈɛɣɐʒ muˈniʃ]), was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography.
The pioneer in this particular field, Portuguese doctor António Egas Moniz, introduced the infamous frontal lobotomy for refractory cases of psychosis, winning for himself the Nobel Prize for a “ technique that just possibly came too soon for the technology and medical philosophy of its own epoch.”
- Siang Yong Tan, Angela Yip
- 10.11622/smedj.2014048
- 2014
- Singapore Med J. 2014 Apr; 55(4): 175-176.
brain. António Egas Moniz (born Nov. 29, 1874, Avança, Port.—died Dec. 13, 1955, Lisbon) was a Portuguese neurologist and statesman who was the founder of modern psychosurgery. With Walter Hess he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of prefrontal leucotomy ( lobotomy) as a radical therapy for ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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The Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz (1874–1955) is often regarded as the founder of psychosurgery. He performed the first prefrontal leukotomy in 1935—about 75 years ago—with the help of neurosurgeon Almeida Lima (1903–1985).
- Dominik Gross, Gereon Schäfer
- 2011
Oct 9, 2023 · Now, as the 2023 Nobel Prizes have been announced over the past week, Moniz’s award stands as a symbol of the bumpy path progress can take, experts say, and sparks questions about whether ...
- Kelsey Ables
Sep 19, 2017 · Egas Moniz (1874–1955) was the first to describe the use of this revolutionary technique which, until 1975 (when computed tomography, CT, scan was introduced in the clinical practice), was the sole diagnostic tool to provide an imaging of cerebral vessels and therefore alterations due to intracranial pathology.
In Europe, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz and his neurosurgical colleague Almeida Lima were experimenting with connections between the frontal cortices and the thalamus, and began to slowly reintroduce some of the principles of Burckhardt’s research. To further refine Burckhardt’s surgical technique, the duo developed a more ...
