STRIDULOUS CONVULSION IN INFANTS.

Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia

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...

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 ...

Management of febrile convulsion in children.

The causes of febrile convulsions are usually benign. Such convulsions are common in children and their long-term consequences are rare. However, other causes of seizures, such as intracranial infections, must be excluded before diagnosis, especially in infants and younger children. Diagnosis is based mainly on history taking, and further investigations into the condition are not generally need...

Hsp72 in lymphocytes of febrile convulsion

The pathophysiology of febrile convulsion, the most common childhood neurologic disease, remains unclear. In this study, we investigated what role a heat shock protein plays in this disease. We enrolled eight boys and two girls with febrile convulsion and 10 age-matched healthy controls. We did a biosynthetic evaluation of both groups by separating lymphocytes and measuring the expression of he...