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António Egas Moniz

Neurological Institute

University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

psychosurgery

(1874 - 1955)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 was divided equally between Walter Rudolf Hess for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs and Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh35lo.html

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