Indications for electric convulsion therapy.

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

Effect of electric convulsion therapy on urinary excretion of 3', 5' cyclic adenosine monophosphate.

Electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) was used in the treatment of 13 women inpatients suffering from depressive symptoms. Twelve of the patients showed a significant increase in urinary excretion of 3', 5' cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) on the day of treatment, whereas four controls who received all or part of the preliminary treatment but no electric shock showed a reduction. The result...

Indications for collapse therapy.

The indications for collapse therapy in the treatment of tuberculosis, simply stated, are—an active pulmonary lesion. Collapse therapy has come to the front as the most effective treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and ahead of the older measures of rest, fresh air, diet, and climatic change. There is little difference of opinion about the effectiveness of collapse therapy as determined by clin...

Electric Power Grid Indications & Warning Tool

The Electric Power grid makes an attractive target because it is the foundational critical infrastructure that underlies all others. A successful attack on the power grid causing a wide-area long-term outage would have significant national security, economic, and public health and safety consequences. Power grid outages could even cause additional cascading failures in other critical infrastruc...