"He is also known as the developer of prefrontal leucotomy (now better known as a lobotomy) for which he received a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Swiss physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess (1881-1973) 1 for his work on the neurophysiology of the diencephalon and its role in the autonomic control of the organs)."
"He is also known as the developer of prefrontal leucotomy (now better known as a lobotomy) for which he received a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Swiss physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess (1881-1973) 1 for his work on the neurophysiology of the diencephalon and its role in the autonomic control of the organs)."
"He studied medicine at the University of Coimbra, the oldest university in Portugal. He later went to France for postgraduate training in neurology and psychiatry. He returned home in 1911 to head the new department of neurology at the University of Lisbon. He stayed there until until his retirement in 1944."
"Egas Moniz Museum and art collection"
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"Development of cerebral angiography"
"In 1926 he started his experiments on cerebral angiography and presented the results at a conference in Paris in 1927. He was the first person to visualise the vessels of the brain using injected contrast media, key to the development of cerebral angiography. His initial choices of contrast media, lithium and strontium bromide, were both found to be unsuitable due to toxicity, which resulted in the death of a patient. His first successful cerebral angiography was with a 25% solution of sodium iodide as his contrast agent. He was aided in his research by Pedro Almeida Lima (1903-1985), the founder of Portuguese neurosurgery 2,4."
"Moniz was a brilliant polymath with interests ranging from mathematics, history, music, painting and writing, to politics."