Treatment of Schizophrenia by Inducing Epileptiform Shocks by the Drug Cardiazol
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The Effect of Cardiazol Convulsions on the So-called "bulbocapnine Catatonia" in the Monkey.
LITTLE is yet understood as to the mode of action of the cardiazol convulsion in schizophrenic states and especially in the catatonic forms in which this method of treatment seems (v. Meduna, 1934) to be most effective. A possible method of approach to this problem lies in the study of the convulsion as it affects the animal, and of its effect on artificially induced states having features in c...
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