2020年9月10日 · Few treatments used in psychiatry have as rich a past as that of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The discovery of ECT garnered much interest at a time when there were few effective interventions for psychotic disorders.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is among the oldest and most controversial treatments in the field of psychiatry, has its 80 th birthday this year. In this brief historical overview, the discovery of the therapeutic effects of convulsive therapy by Laszló Meduna, and the circumstances that motivated Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini to use ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, in the past sometimes called electric convulsion therapy, convulsion treatment or electroplexy) is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with electricity. [1]

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 was done with the use of...

The history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States is traced from its crude beginnings in 1940 to its emergence as a highly sophisticated and effective treatment for many severe psychiatric disorders. The general distrust of all somatic therapies in the 1930s and 1940s expressed by …

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 remains a highly effective treatment for certain psychiatric conditions, particularly severe depression, bipolar disorder, and treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

Exactly 80 years ago, on April 11, 1938, the first treatment using electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was administered in Rome, Italy. In 1938, there were no effective medications for the treatment of mental illness; the modern era of psychopharmacology was still more than 15 years away.

2019年5月14日 · Treatment for mental illness in those days was fairly limited, but the family doctor suggested that she try a revolutionary new method: “shock therapy,” or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT),...

Past research focused on characterizing the cognitive deficits caused by ECT, understanding their causes, and defining ways of ameliorating the deficits. Future research includes the following recommendations.

Researchers continue to investigate ECT and related therapeutics; revisiting the history of ECT may help shed light on the origins of the field of neuromodulation. The roots of ECT lie in the concept of using one disease to treat another, which was spurred by the discovery of malarial therapy for neurosyphilis.