Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist and psychiatrist who, with his assistant Lucio Bini, developed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) at Sapienza University of Rome. Cerletti had observed pigs stunned with an electric current before slaughter and wondered whether a similar, controlled shock could induce a therapeutic seizure in psychiatric patients without the harder-to-control dosing of the injected convulsive drugs then in use. He and Bini administered the first ECT treatment to a human patient on 11 April 1938.
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Co-developed electroconvulsive therapy together, 1938.
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Wikipedia- Slaughterhouse observation; Collaboration with Bini; 11 April 1938 first treatment
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1877-09-26
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1963-07-25
- Specialist In: Psychiatry
- Associated With: Lucio Bini
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What did Ugo Cerletti discover?
He discovered electroconvulsive therapy.
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. It uses electric current to provoke a seizure for a short duration, and is used in an attempt to treat certain mental disorders when other possible treatments have not, or cannot, cure the person.
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