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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 two foremost promoters of psychosurgery in the 1930s, Moniz in Portugal and Freeman in the US, were both neurologists. Psychiatrists were later found amongst both the supporters and critics of psychosurgery. José de Matos Sobral Cid, who had initially allowed Moniz to operate on patients from his asylum, became a critic of the procedure. [7]
A lobotomy (from Greek λοβός (lobos) 'lobe' and τομή (tomē) 'cut, slice') or leucotomy is a discredited form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy, depression) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex. [1]
António Egas Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1949. Science and technology in Portugal is mainly conducted within a network of research and development (R&D) units belonging to public universities and state-managed autonomous research institutions. There are also non-state-run ...
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 Henriques ...
Cerebral angiography, developed by António Egas Moniz; Lobotomy, pioneered by António Egas Moniz; Tropical medicine, pioneered by Garcia de Orta; Pyreliophorus, solar oven; Herrmann wall telephone; Prepaid Mobile Phone, a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use
Moniz sign is a clinical sign in which forceful passive plantar flexion of the ankle elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses. [1] It is named after Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz. [2]
António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (1874–1955), better known as "António Egas Moniz", Portuguese psychiatrist, neurosurgeon, and Nobel Prize winner; António Simões de Abreu (born 1947), Portuguese engineer and politician; Artur Abreu (born 1994), Portuguese-Luxembourgish footballer; Aryam Abreu Delgado (born 1978), Cuban chess ...