0.9 amps - History electroshock
Invented in the '30s by an Italian neurologist, Ugo Cerletti, electroshock is one of the most controversial therapeutic techniques. But you can judge without prejudice?
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Ugo Cerletti (Conegliano, September 26, 1877 - Rome, July 25, 1963) was an Italian psychiatrist and neurologist. Creator of electroconvulsive therapy, commonly known as electroshock, used to treat certain mental disorders.
Scientific activities
Cerletti came to use electroshock therapy on humans as a result of the experiments he conducted on animals about the neurological consequences of repeated seizures. In Genoa, and later in Rome, used electroshock equipment for repeatable and controllable cause seizures in dogs and other animals. The idea of \u200b\u200busing the TEC neuropsychiatric patients came after observing that some pigs were anesthetized with an electric shock before being taken to a slaughterhouse. Should also be noted that since 1935, metrazol (a convulsant drug) and insulin were widely used in many countries for the treatment of schizophrenia, with interesting results.
The idea underlying the approach was based on research by Nobel Prize winner Julius Wagner-Jauregg through the use of malaria-induced convulsions to treat some nervous and mental disorders - such as paralytic dementia caused by syphilis - as well as the theories developed by Ladislas Meduna, according to which schizophrenia and epilepsy were antagonistic disorders, research and theories that led in 1933 Manfred Sakel to develop "insulin coma therapy" in psychiatry.
Cerletti first used for electroconvulsive therapy in April 1938, in collaboration with Lucio Bini, a patient suffering from schizophrenia with symptoms of delirium, hallucinations and confusion, a series of electroshock therapy allowed the patient to return to a normal state of mind. Consequently, in subsequent years, Cerletti and his staff carry out regular electroshock therapy, both in animals and neuropsychiatric patients, coming to determine the reliability of therapy and its safety and usefulness in clinical practice, especially for the treatment of manic- depression, and severe cases of depression. His work and his research had a significant influence, and the use of therapy quickly spread throughout the world.
In his long career as a psychiatrist and neurologist, published Cerletti 113 scientific work on the pathology of senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease, the structure of glial cells, the normal and pathological nervous tissue, on congenital syphilis, hormones and endemic goiter.
should also remember some of his foreign contributions to medicine: the design of white overalls for camouflage of the Alpine troops, and the invention of a fuze for artillery to blast delayed.
Chiavenna is buried in the cemetery, near his father and his wife Antoinette Marzolo (died 1977).
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