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Unilateral Electro-Convulsive Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Neville Peel Lancaster
Affiliation:
Barrow Hospital, Bristol
Reuben Ralph Steinert
Affiliation:
Deva Hospital, Chester
Isaac Frost
Affiliation:
Deva Hospital, Chester

Extract

Electro-convulsive therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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