Ugo Cerletti
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Italian neurologist
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Why Is Ugo Cerletti Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for a short duration. This therapy is used in an attempt to treat certain mental disorders, and may be useful when other possible treatments have not, or cannot, cure the person of their mental disorder.
Ugo Cerletti's Published Works
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- Old and new information about electroshock. (1950) (104)
- [Endemic goiter]. (1951) (28)
- Indications respectives des méthodes de choc (1950) (3)
- Potentiation of Narcotic Action by the Brain treated with an Electric Shock (1962) (2)
- [Differential effects of brain suspensions from the normal brain and after electroshock treatment]. (1959) (1)
- Electroshock therapy. (1954) (1)
- [Goiter and cretenism]. (1958) (0)
- [Shortcuts in examination of patients]. (1954) (0)
- [Memories of Franz Nissl]. (1959) (0)
- The neurasthenic fakes. (1947) (0)
- [The endemicity of goiter-cretinism today and 60 years ago. Findings in Valtellina, the valley of the Mera and the valley of the Bisagno]. (1963) (0)
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