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Convulsive Therapy and Endogenous Depression*
Pharmacopsychiatry, 1980Since the introduction of seizures as a therapy in psychiatry in 1934, much has been learned about the target populations, modes of induction, means to make the treatment safer, and the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic process. The repeated and spaced induction of seizures relieves the symptoms of severe depressive psychoses.
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INVOLUTIONAL MELANCHOLIA AND CONVULSIVE THERAPY
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1949Results of 61 involutional cases discharged from the Institute of Living, 1935-37, prior to convulsive therapy, are compared with those of 347 involutional cases treated with convulsive therapy between 1945 and 1947. The average number of electric treatments for melancholia cases was 10.8; for paranoid cases, 16.2; for mixed cases, 11.8. In both series
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Meduna and the origins of convulsive therapy
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1984Convulsive therapy for dementia praecox was first used by the Hungarian neuropsychiatrist Ladislas Meduna in January 1934. On the 50th anniversary the author discusses the introduction of the treatment, the role of a theory of the biological antagonism between epilepsy and schizophrenia, and the contributions of Meduna, Sakel, Cerletti, and Bini.
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Behavioral Patterns in Convulsive Therapy
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1961Individual differences in the behavioral response to convulsive therapy are marked. In psychiatric practice, patients with similar psychopathologic syndromes, and of similar sex and age, show a variety of clinical responses: Some improve and sustain such change; some improve, only to relapse quickly; and some fail to improve.
M, FINK, R L, KAHN
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SPONTANEOUS CONVULSIONS FOLLOWING CONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY
American Journal of Psychiatry, 19451. Of over 500 patients who received electric convulsive therapy, 2 exhibited spontaneous generalized convulsions 6½ to 8 weeks after termination of treatment. These 2 patients had never had seizures prior to treatment, nor were there any epileptic manifestations in any of the family members. 2.
BERNARD L. PACELLA, S. EUGENE BARRERA
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The Use of Curare with Convulsive Therapy
Journal of Mental Science, 1946Convulsion therapy may now be considered to have established a position for itself in psychiatry, and in particular there is now a consensus of opinion that in states of depression occurring in later life it offers a chance of recovery for the patient unrivalled by any other form of therapy.
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Convulsive and Drug Therapies of Depression
Annual Review of Medicine, 1981Depressive disorders are complex alterations in mood state; they occur at any age and are of unknown and seeming multiple pathogenesis. There is no generally accepted reliable prophylaxis or treatment for depressive disor ders. Various therapies are used.
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Convulsive Therapy in Delusional Disorders
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1995Delusions are psychopathologic expressions associated with schizophrenia, affective disorders, and systemic and toxic illnesses. In each condition, the efficacy of ECT is well defined. For some illnesses, such as major depression with psychosis, manic delirium, and catatonia, ECT is effective in relieving the delusional states.
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