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In 1949, who was given the Nobel prize for medicine and for what work?
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#102912. Asked by star_gazer. (Feb 10 09 4:18 PM)
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BRY2K
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The prize went to WALTER RUDOLF HESS for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs .
(What an unfortunate name in that era, eh?)
 http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1949a.html
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star_gazer
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Strange Bry, that's not what I had:
Then, in 1935, Portuguese physician and neurologist António Egas Moniz pioneered a surgery he called prefrontal leucotomy. The procedure involved drilling holes in the patient's head and destroying tissue in the frontal lobes by injecting alcohol. He later changed technique, using a surgical instrument called a leucotome that cut brain tissue by rotating a retractable wire loop (a quite different cutting instrument also used for lobotomies shares the same name). Moniz was given the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 for this work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotom
Can anyone help us find who got the Nobel prize for medicine in 1949.
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queproblema
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Good grief, they gave a Nobel Prize to the guy who pioneered LOBOTOMY? (For anyone who didn't catch what a "leucotomy" was.)
From the Wiki article:
A lobotomy (Greek: lobos: Lobe of brain, tomos: "cut/slice") is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery, also known as a leukotomy or leucotomy (from Greek leukos: clear or white and tomos meaning "cut/slice"). It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex. In some cases an instrument which was essentially an ice-pick—and sometimes an actual kitchen ice-pick was used with a carpenter's hammer—was simply passed through the eye-socket and struck with a hammer when in the right position. These procedures result in major personality changes beyond what is desired, and can cause severe mental disabilities...the procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
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star_gazer
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Hey the Nobel awarders goofed!
The patient's informed consent in the modern sense was not obtained. After the introduction of the antipsychotic Chlorpromazine (Thorazine), lobotomies fell out of common use and the procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
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