1874–1955 Portuguese physician, diplomat and politicianwho developed cerebral angiography and frontal lobectomy.
Keywords: psychosurgery; frontal lobes; lobotomy; biological treatment; cerebral angiography
De Abreu Freire, Antonio Caetano (alias Egas Moniz)
GE Berrios, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002404
| Further Reading | |
| book Moniz E (1936) Tentatives Opératoires dans le Traitement de Certaines Psychoses. Paris: Masson. | |
| Moniz E (1948) Mein Weg zur Leukotomie. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 73: 581–583. | |
| Moniz E and Lima A (1936) Premiers essais de psycho-chirurgie.Technique et résultats. Lisboa Medica 13: 152–161. | |
| book Anonymous (1979) Exposiao sobre a vida e obra de Egas Moniz. Catalogue: Faculdade de Medicine do Porto, Porto, Bial. | |
| book Barahona Fernandez HJ de (1956) "Egas Moniz". Kolle K Grosse Nervenärzte, vol. 1, pp. 187–188. Stuttgart: Thieme | |
| Berrios GE (1997) The origins of psychosurgery. History of Psychiatry 8: 61–82. | |
| Jacobsen CF, Wolfe JB and Jackson TA (1935) An experimental analysis of the functions of the frontal association areas in primates. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 82: 1–14. | |
| Pressman JD (1988) Sufficient promise: John F Fulton and the origins of psychosurgery. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 62: 1–29. | |
| book Walker AE (1970) "Egas Moniz". In: Haymaker W and Schiller F (eds) The Founders of Neurology, 2nd ed., pp. 489–492. Springfield, IL: Thomas | |
