Lucio Bini was an Italian psychiatrist who, working with his supervisor Ugo Cerletti at Sapienza University of Rome, co-developed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and designed the apparatus used to deliver it. On 11 April 1938 the two administered the first electrically induced convulsive treatment to a human patient, developed to replace earlier convulsive therapies induced by injected drugs, which were harder to control and time precisely. Bini is regarded as the treatment's technical and physiological architect.
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Co-developed electroconvulsive therapy together, 1938.
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What was Lucio Bini's role in developing electroconvulsive therapy?
He co-discovered electroconvulsive therapy and designed the original apparatus.
Lucio Bini was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Together with Ugo Cerletti he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy. He is regarded as its technical and physiological architect, designing the original Cerletti-Bini apparatus used to induce therapeutic seizures in 1938 to 1939.
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