In the 1940s and early 1950s, ECT was usually given in an "unmodified" form, without muscle relaxants, and the seizure resulted in a full-scale convulsion. A rare but serious complication of …

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), one of the oldest treatment methods in the field of psychiatry, was first introduced 80 years ago in Rome when Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini used an electric …

2020年9月10日 · In 1952, Holmberg and Thesleff pioneered "modified" (anesthetized) ECT, which further improved patient comfort and tolerability . Today, research in the field of …

Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a medical procedure in which a small electrical current is used to trigger a controlled seizure in the brain. It is primarily used to treat severe depression , …

2024年10月1日 · Shrouded in controversy and haunted by the screams of its early patients, electroshock therapy emerged in the 1940s as a revolutionary yet deeply unsettling treatment …

2018年11月3日 · In 1938, Cerletti and his psychiatrist colleague Lucio Bini developed the first ECT device and treated their first human patient, a diagnosed schizophrenic with delusions, …

2025年1月6日 · Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has a checkered past, but its use today is markedly different from earlier practices in terms of both safety and therapeutic precision. ECT …

2017年1月13日 · ECT was invented in Italy in the late 1930s. Psychiatrists had already discovered that inducing seizures could relieve symptoms of mental illness. Before ECT, this …

5 天之前 · The history of modern electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dates back to 1938 when Italian psychiatrist Lucio Bini and neurologist Ugo Cerletti used electricity to induce a series of …

2024年10月1日 · Early ECT was a far cry from the carefully controlled procedure we know today. Patients were often fully conscious, without anesthesia or muscle relaxants. The seizures …