Convulsion and insulin treatment.
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Convulsion Therapy Over I2 years have passed since the first report on convulsion therapy was given by Von Meduna. In that period the treatment has been undergoing the cycle usually imposed on any promising remedy in medicine. Originally used for schizophrenia, it was subsequently tried in a wide field of psychiatric conditions. Now it is becoming recognized as a specific treatment for one form of mental illness, psychotic depression, and as an aid in a number of other conditions. It is significant that despite much controversy and the fundamental repulsiveness of inducing a fit, the method has more than held its place over a fair period of time. A radical change in the usual orientation was needed when for centuries the aim had been to cure rather than provoke fits. Yet the idea of using one potentially noxious agent for the relief of a greater menace is nothing new in other branches of medicine. The essential feature in the method still remains the artificial induction of a major convulsion. There have been many attempts to modify it but so far the only result of note has.been the finding that softening or even elimination of the associated muscular movements has had no untoward effect on the results.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The overseas post-graduate medical journal
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1948