Insulin shock therapy
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insulin-shock-therapy-186-13992397
title:
Insulin shock therapy
text:
Insulin shock therapy or insulin coma therapy was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks. It was introduced in 1927 by Austrian-American psychiatrist Manfred Sakel and used extensively in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly for schizophrenia, before falling out of favour and being replaced by neuroleptic drugs in the 1960s. It was one of a number of physical treatments introduced into psych
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Psychiatric treatment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_shock_therapy
date created:
2005-10-13T22:10:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:01:08Z
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