Egas Moniz

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (November 29, 1874 - December 13, 1955) was a Portuguese physician and neurologist. He was born in Avanca, Portugal. He was the inventor of prefrontal leucotomy (also known as frontal lobotomy) as a surgical approach to the radical treatment of several kinds of mental diseases; one of the several types of psychosurgery. For this work, Moniz received the Nobel Prize in 1949, jointly with the Swiss neurophysiologist Walter Rudolf Hess.

Source

• Why Did Moniz get the Prize
  
• Psychosurgery.org
• Oral Histories of Lobotomy victims
• New England Journal of Medicine article
• The History of Psychosurgery
  
• Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
  
• Brain & Mind, September 1997.
  

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