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António Egas Moniz. 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. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery, [1] having developed the surgical ...
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In the mid-1930s, when Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz pioneered a method for severing brain tissue to treat psychiatric disorders, he was seen as a visionary.
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António Egas Moniz 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 certain psychoses, or mental
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Moniz’s first psychosurgery, performed on 12 November 1935, was described by the Nobel Committee as one of the most important discoveries ever made in psychiatric medicine. In that case, the patient was a 63-year-old woman suffering from depression, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations and insomnia.
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António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949. Born: 29 November 1874, Avanca, Portugal. Died: 13 December 1955, Lisbon, Portugal. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; Neurological Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the ...
Conhecido por desenvolver a arteriografia e a leucotomia. Primeiro e único neurocirurgião laureado com o Prémio Nobel (1949). António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, nascido António Caetano de Abreu Freire de Resende, conhecido popularmente como António Egas Moniz GCSE • GCB ( Avanca, Estarreja, 29 de novembro de 1874 — São ...
