Cardiazol Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia

Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia

Electrographic changes immediately recorded from the exposed human brain during cardiazol convulsion.

(Received for publication, September 15, 1949) Electro (encephalo) graphic studies of convulsion induced by cardiazol injection have hitherto given significant meanings in explanation of the cerebral mechanism for convulsion phenomenon and improvement of psychic cgndition.1)2)13)14) We also had once investigated electrographic changes during cardiazol convulsion in man.16) Those results, howeve...

Memory studies in electric convulsion therapy.

The disturbances of memory immediately following electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) have been the subject of many investigations (Zubin and Barrera, 1941; Mayer-Gross, 1943; Liberson and Wilcox, 1945; Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1947). Implicit, ifnot explicit, in the majority of these papers is the assumption that memory can be studied in isolation, Bartlett, however, (1932), long ago demonstrated ...

Catecholamine and cardiovascular response to electro-convulsion therapy in man.

Fourteen anaesthetized patients undergoing electro-convulsion therapy on one or more occasions were studied. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, and plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline levels were measured before, during and after the electric shock. With the electric shock, blood pressure and heart rate rose and adrenaline and noradrenaline levels in plasma increased steeply. Th...

Treatment of Schizophrenia by Inducing Epileptiform Shocks by the Drug Cardiazol