Ladislas J. Meduna
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Hungarian-American neurologist and neuropathologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ladislas Joseph Meduna , a Hungarian neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist, initiated convulsive treatment, the repeated induction of grand mal seizures in the treatment for psychosis. Observing the high concentration of glia in post-mortem brains of patients with epilepsy and a paucity in those with schizophrenia, he proposed that schizophrenia might be treated by inducing "epileptic" seizures. Thus, chemically induced seizures became the electroconvulsive therapy that is now in worldwide use.
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