Ladislas J. Meduna
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title:
Ladislas J. Meduna
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Ladislas Joseph Meduna was a Hungarian neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist who initiated convulsive treatment, the repeated induction of grand mal seizures, as a treatment of 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 u
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Psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1896-1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislas_J._Meduna
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2024-03-08T16:24:33Z
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