notable figures: Egas Moniz

(1874 - 1955)

Portuguese neurologist Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz earned a Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing the first psychosurgery procedure, frontal leukotomy. (portrait courtesy UIC Department of Neurology)

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•  American Experience: The Lobotomist Campbell Scott 2008

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