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11Insulin shock therapy — Intervention Insulin shock therapy administered in Lapinlahti Hospital, Helsinki in the 1950s ICD 9 CM 94.24 …
12Deep-Sleep Therapy and Barbiturates — (1922) (See also Barbiturates.) In 1920, Zurich Burghölzli psychiatrist Jakob Klaesi (1883–1980) began using a combination of two of Roche’s barbiturates for deep sleep therapy. The idea of putting patients into a therapeutic stupor was… …
13Electroconvulsive Therapy — (ECT) (from 1938) Although medicine had known applications of electricity for mental symptoms since the late eighteenth century, only in the mid 1930s did the accelerating interest in somatic therapies sparked by the success of insulin… …
14History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, in the past sometimes called electric convulsion therapy or electroplexy) is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with electricity.Carney S and Geddes J (2003) Editorial:… …
15shock therapy — n the treatment of mental disorder by the artificial induction of coma or convulsions through use of drugs or electric current called also convulsive therapy see ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY …
16Cardiazol Shock Therapy — See Convulsive Therapy: Chemical …
17Metrazol Shock Therapy — See Convulsive Therapy: Chemical …
18Thérapie Electro-Convulsive — Sismothérapie La sismothérapie, ou électrochoc (du gr. êlektron ambre jaune et du néerl. schokken heurter ), ou électronarcose ou électroconvulsivothérapie (ECT) est une technique médicale consistant à délivrer un choc électrique au niveau du… …
19shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders. Also called shock treatment. [1935 40] *… …
20electroconvulsive therapy — n the treatment of mental disorder and esp. depression by the application of electric current to the head of a usu. anesthetized patient that induces unconsciousness and convulsive seizures in the brain abbr. ECT called also electric shock,… …
