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Egas Moniz |
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Egas Moniz (Portuguese) [ˈegas ˈmonɪz] n (Biographies / Egas Moniz, Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire (1874-1955) M, Portuguese, SCIENCE: neurologist) Antonio Caetanio de Abreu Freire. 1874-1955, Portuguese neurologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1949) with Walter Hess for their development of prefrontal leucotomy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, developer of the lobotomy, thought that mental illness resulted from fixed thought patterns and that "to cure these patients we must destroy the more or less fixed arrangements of cellular connections that exist in the brain. |
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