Electric Convulsion Therapy in Treatment of Prolonged Stupor

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 ...

Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia

Manic Stupor or Stupor Resulting from Treatment of Mania?

Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade shared a case in a letter to the editor in the July 2001 issue of Indian Journal of Psychiatry (Andrade, 2001) and he, as proposed by Dr. Fink (Fink, 2001) must be congratulated for bringing this treatable, life threatening condition to the notice of psychiatric fraternity and we must also thank Dr. Fink for giving guidelines to manage excited manic patients in the same...

Manic Stupor: Diagnosis and Treatment

Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade shared a case in a letter to the editor in the July 2001 issue of Indian Journal of Psychiatry (Andrade, 2001) and he, as proposed by Dr. Fink (Fink, 2001) must be congratulated for bringing this treatable, life threatening condition to the notice of psychiatric fraternity and we must also thank Dr. Fink for giving guidelines to manage excited manic patients in the same...

Convulsion and insulin treatment.

Convulsion Therapy Over I2 years have passed since the first report on convulsion therapy was given by Von Meduna. In that period the treatment has been undergoing the cycle usually imposed on any promising remedy in medicine. Originally used for schizophrenia, it was subsequently tried in a wide field of psychiatric conditions. Now it is becoming recognized as a specific treatment for one form...