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MECHANISM OF CONVULSIVE THERAPY

Lancet, The, 1942
H Pullar-Strecker
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PSYCHIATRY AND CONVULSANT THERAPY

Medical Journal of Australia, 1977
Because electroconvulsive therapy is an empirical and widely used treatment in modern psychiatry, there is a tendency for it to be applied without sufficient concern for the patient. In view of the critical attitudes which prevail in certain areas of society towards physical treatments generally, it is important that the medical profession maintains an
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Unilateral Electro-Convulsive Therapy

Journal of Mental Science, 1958
Electro-convulsive therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry.
N P, LANCASTER, R R, STEINERT, I, FROST
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ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN STAMMERING

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1947
1. To illustrate the value of the pluralistic approach to the problem of stammering a case is reported in detail in which psychotherapy speech training, and electric convulsive therapy were utilized. 2. The dominant psychoneurotic traits were amenable to psychotherapy only after convulsive treatment released the patient's inner tension. 3.
T V, OWEN, M G, STEMMERMANN
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Convulsion Therapy

Journal of Mental Science, 1944
Therapeutic convulsions were introduced by Meduna (1937) in 1934. After preliminary trial with intramuscular camphorated oil, Meduna soon discovered the great advantages of intravenous cardiazol (leptazol, metrazol), which remains the best of the chemical methods of fit production.
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Modified Leptazol Convulsive Therapy

Journal of Mental Science, 1955
The use of chemically induced convulsive therapy introduced by Von Meduna in 1934 was followed by the introduction of electric convulsive therapy by Cerletti and Bini in 1937. The latter method is now of almost universal use. The main reasons for the change over were the elimination of the unpleasant aura experienced in connection with the leptazol fit
W P, BERRINGTON, S, GOLDIN
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