Electroconvulsive Therapy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780195148206
First sentence: The traditional litany on the history of the medical uses of electricity, beginning with the Roman use of electric fish to treat headaches (Harms, 1956; Sandford, 1966; Brandon, 1981), is simply beside the point; electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) evolved solely as a result of Ladislaus von Meduna's original investigations on the effects of camphor-induced convulsions in schizophrenic patients.