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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...
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    Egas Moniz de Riba Douro, also known as o Aio ('the Tutor') (1080-1146) was a Portuguese nobleman, who served in the Portuguese Crown as the tutor of Afonso...
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    treatment. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery...
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  • It may refer to: António Egas Moniz (1874–1955), Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate Bryant Moniz, quarterback for the University...
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  • 19889°W / 38.66778; -9.19889 Egas Moniz School of Health & Science (formerly Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz ISCSEM) is the largest private...
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    physician Egas Moniz. His new "leucotomy" procedure, intended to treat mental illness, took small corings of the patient's frontal lobes. Moniz became a...
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    medicine Nobel laureate and inventor of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, was ortolans as prepared at the restaurant Le Chapon Fin in Bordeaux...
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    Mattoso that the most likely tutor of Afonso Henriques was Egas Moniz's oldest brother, Ermígio Moniz, who, besides being the senior brother within the family...
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    and aneurysms. It was pioneered in 1927 by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz at the University of Lisbon, who also helped develop thorotrast for use...
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  • replacement. The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 was awarded to Egas Moniz "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses...
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  • psychosurgery in the 20th century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz who, during the mid-1930s, developed the operation known as leucotomy...
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    medal. Some awards have been controversial. This includes one to António Egas Moniz in 1949 for the prefrontal lobotomy, bestowed despite protests from the...
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    involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz. Hess was born in Frauenfeld as the second of three children to Clemens...
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  • who, together with Carl Jung, "developed the concept of synchronicity"; Egas Moniz, for his belief that lobotomy can treat mental ilnesses; Julian Schwinger...
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    was first developed in 1927 by the Portuguese physician and neurologist Egas Moniz at the University of Lisbon to provide contrasted X-ray cerebral angiography...
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    exhibited by single nerve fibers. Walter Rudolf Hess and António Caetano Egas Moniz (1949) for discovery of the functional organization of the midbrain and...
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    was narrowed to a very small number of people for specific indications. Egas Moniz performed the first leucotomy, or lobotomy in Portugal in 1935, which...
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    that the church was founded by Egas Moniz, aide of King D. Afonso Henriques; others say that on the initiative of Egas Moniz a primitive temple, perhaps...
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  • academic and surgical endeavors were largely ignored. In the late 1930s, Egas Moniz conceived the leucotomy (AKA prefrontal lobotomy) in which the fibers...
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    This type was used by the Nobel prize-winning Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. Another, different, surgical instrument also called a leucotome was introduced...
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    Eliot None 1949 Hideki Yukawa William Giauque Walter Rudolf Hess; António Egas Moniz William Faulkner John Boyd Orr 1950 C. F. Powell Otto Diels; Kurt Alder...
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    for this purpose. The wavelength of maximum emission is 415 nm. António Egas Moniz searched for a radiocontrast agent for cerebral angiography. After experiments...
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    Thorotrast became widely used after its introduction in 1931. António Egas Moniz contributed to its development. About 2 to 10 million patients worldwide...
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    naval officer António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (1874–1955), better known as "António Egas Moniz", Portuguese psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, and...
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    Mendes da Maia (Archbishop of Braga) Egas Moniz de Cresconhe Egas Moniz de Ribadouro (1108–1146) Ermígio Moniz de Ribadouro (1128–1135) Fernão Captivo...
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  • António Egas Moniz. In the procedure developed by Moniz, the "white matter" in the frontal lobes was severed using a leucotome, an instrument Moniz designed...
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    the entrance is a scene depicting the Battle of Arcos de Valdevez and Egas Moniz before Alfonso VII of Castile, while to the right, is D. João I in Oporto...
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  • meningitis M Constantin von Monakow 1853 - 1930 Switzerland M Egas Moniz 1874 - 1955 Portugal Moniz sign M Karin Muraszko 1957 - United States M Abraham Myerson...
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  • from the original on 10 March 2023. Retrieved 1 March 2023. "Brasileiro Moniz Bandeira é indicado ao Nobel de Literatura". exame.com (in Portuguese)....
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    treatment for mental illness, first developed by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, involved damaging the pathways connecting the frontal lobe to the limbic...
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