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...
25 KB (2,520 words) - 05:26, 9 October 2024
treatment. The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery...
104 KB (12,000 words) - 23:08, 16 October 2024
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...
5 KB (421 words) - 01:46, 28 May 2024
It may refer to: António Egas Moniz (1874–1955), Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate Bryant Moniz, quarterback for the University...
3 KB (398 words) - 11:47, 27 July 2023
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...
2 KB (111 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2024
physician Egas Moniz. His new "leucotomy" procedure, intended to treat mental illness, took small corings of the patient's frontal lobes. Moniz became a...
22 KB (2,307 words) - 23:06, 19 October 2024
it is possible to say that his paternal grandfather was called Egas, probably Egas Moniz, a name that would become quite common in the family (in fact...
5 KB (608 words) - 00:18, 20 October 2024
medicine Nobel laureate and inventor of the lobotomy procedure, António Egas Moniz, was ortolans as prepared at the restaurant Le Chapon Fin in Bordeaux...
20 KB (1,991 words) - 22:42, 21 September 2024
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...
32 KB (3,764 words) - 15:39, 12 October 2024
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...
2 KB (288 words) - 03:54, 29 September 2024
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...
26 KB (3,053 words) - 06:31, 5 September 2024
medal. Some awards have been controversial. This includes one to António Egas Moniz in 1949 for the prefrontal lobotomy, bestowed despite protests from the...
58 KB (5,435 words) - 01:42, 19 October 2024
psychosurgery in the 20th century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz who, during the mid-1930s, developed the operation known as leucotomy...
37 KB (3,980 words) - 11:17, 14 October 2024
who, together with Carl Jung, "developed the concept of synchronicity"; Egas Moniz, for his belief that lobotomy can treat mental ilnesses; Julian Schwinger...
17 KB (1,837 words) - 18:12, 18 October 2024
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...
57 KB (1,739 words) - 20:09, 16 October 2024
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...
8 KB (810 words) - 10:21, 7 February 2024
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...
66 KB (7,997 words) - 16:58, 5 October 2024
This type was used by the Nobel prize-winning Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. Another, different, surgical instrument also called a leucotome was introduced...
4 KB (341 words) - 12:34, 5 November 2023
even when their validity is eventually disproven. For example, António Egas Moniz received the prize in 1949 for the prefrontal lobotomy which was bestowed...
168 KB (18,784 words) - 05:52, 20 October 2024
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...
3 KB (280 words) - 02:27, 4 January 2024
academic and surgical endeavors were largely ignored. In the late 1930s, Egas Moniz conceived the leucotomy (AKA prefrontal lobotomy) in which the fibers...
133 KB (14,936 words) - 16:39, 13 October 2024
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...
23 KB (2,588 words) - 17:24, 11 October 2024
for this purpose. The wavelength of maximum emission is 415 nm. António Egas Moniz searched for a radiocontrast agent for cerebral angiography. After experiments...
13 KB (910 words) - 08:00, 24 July 2024
results and recognition in the international scene. In 1935, Antonio Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician, performed the first surgery on the oval center...
15 KB (2,018 words) - 06:10, 16 August 2024
exhibited by single nerve fibers. Walter Rudolf Hess and António Caetano Egas Moniz (1949) for discovery of the functional organization of the midbrain and...
30 KB (2,919 words) - 14:48, 16 August 2024
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...
8 KB (826 words) - 01:34, 12 August 2024
Mendes da Maia (Archbishop of Braga) Egas Moniz de Cresconhe Egas Moniz de Ribadouro (1108–1146) Ermígio Moniz de Ribadouro (1128–1135) Fernão Captivo...
10 KB (1,055 words) - 14:44, 15 October 2024
Thorotrast became widely used after its introduction in 1931. António Egas Moniz contributed to its development. About 2 to 10 million patients worldwide...
7 KB (894 words) - 19:22, 17 July 2024
naval officer António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (1874–1955), better known as "António Egas Moniz", Portuguese psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, and...
7 KB (778 words) - 12:12, 7 September 2024
treatment for mental illness, first developed by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, involved damaging the pathways connecting the frontal lobe to the limbic...
22 KB (2,693 words) - 09:24, 8 July 2024