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Moniz on a 1989 commemorative Portuguese escudo banknote. After Moniz's death, antipsychotic medications were developed and put into use and leucotomies fell out of favour. [15] Moniz's legacy suffered towards the end of the 20th century, [10] as leucotomies were then perceived overwhelmingly negatively, thought of as an outdated experimental ...
Egas was the eldest son of Moninho Viegas, o Gasco, [1] who is generally considered the founder of the House of Ribadouro. His mother's name is unknown. From his patronymic, 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, it was the name of his eldest brother and heir to the house).
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]
Egas (Moniz?) Moninho Viegas , called the Gascon (o Gasco ) or Monio (sometimes spelled Munio) Viegas (c. 950–1022, Vila Boa do Bispo) was a Portuguese nobleman of the 10th and 11th centuries. This Gascon was one of the first, with the help of his brothers, to fight the Moors of Almanzor in Portugal , [ 1 ] taking part in the reconquest of ...
Egas Moniz was son of Monio Ermiges, o Gasco (the Gascon) and Ouroana. He had two wives, the first was Dórdia Pais de Azevedo, daughter of Paio Godins de Azevedo and Gontinha Nunes Velho. His second marriage was with the Countess Teresa Afonso de Celanova, a noble lady, daughter of Afonso Nunes de Celanova and Maria Fernandes.
Fiamberti's suggestion of leucotomy with the method of the transorbital path yielded the best results and recognition in the international scene. In 1935, Antonio Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician, performed the first surgery on the oval center of the prefrontal lobe. Starting with the hypothesis that the role of the bonds formed by the ...
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 Egas Moniz publishes his first report of performing a prefrontal leukotomy on a human patient. [17] Guido Fanconi describes a connection between celiac disease, cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and bronchiectasis. [18] Harry Himsworth distinguishes the two principal types of diabetes. [19]