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- Title
Electroconvulsive therapy in young people and the pioneering spirit of Lauretta Bender.
- Authors
Walter, Garry; Robertson, Michael; Rey, Joseph M.; Soh, Nerissa; Malhi, Gin S.
- Abstract
The article looks at the role of neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender in the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in childhood schizophrenia. Bender claimed that ECT was beneficial to almost all the children included in a study conducted at the Bellevue Hospital in New York in 1947. It is said that her suggestion to use the hallucinogen called lysergic acid diethylamide in treating childhood schizophrenia was controversial. One the reasons for the decline of the use of ECT is said to be the concerns regarding its effect on the brain.
- Subjects
BENDER, Lauretta, 1897-1987; ELECTROCONVULSIVE therapy for children; ELECTROCONVULSIVE therapy; SCHIZOPHRENIA in children; THERAPEUTIC use of LSD; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of electricity; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 5, p253
- ISSN
0924-2708
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1601-5215.2010.00487.x