Word: cerletti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dates back to 1938, when Italian Psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, searching for a treatment for schizophrenia, used electricity to induce convulsions in a disturbed patient. Afterward, his condition improved. In the ensuing years, ECT became a common treatment for severe psychotic illnesses, both in Europe...
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