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    Ugo Cerletti (26 September 1877 – 25 July 1963) was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry...
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  • professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist and a psychiatrist, he researched and discovered...
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    electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), invented by the Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti in 1938. The use of psychosurgery was narrowed to a very small number...
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    Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964), Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931) and Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963). In 1933, he fled Nazi Germany and moved to the United States...
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    and dilapidated material conditions within psychiatric institutions. Ugo Cerletti, the Italian psychiatrist and joint inventor with Lucio Bini of electroconvulsive...
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  • first practical Intelligence test Lucio Bini (1908–1964), together with Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy Gerd Binnig (born 1947)...
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  • Ladislaus J. von Meduna in 1934, and electroconvulsive shock therapy by Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini in 1937, were developed. These methods were primarily...
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    and schizophrenia, and the contributions of Ladislas J. Meduna, Sakel, Ugo Cerletti, and Lucio Bini.) Doroshow, DB: Performing a Cure for Schizophrenia:...
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  • Mazarin Mario Oriani-Ambrosini Corrado Gini, statistician Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrists Corrado Böhm, computer scientist Benedetto Castelli, mathematician...
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  • develops the now ubiquitous self-retaining thoracic retractor 1938 – Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini discover electroconvulsive therapy 1938 – Howard Florey...
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    Italian football. Francesco Beccaruzzi, painter Ferruccio Benini, actor. Ugo Cerletti, a neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy...
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  • Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian poet, lawyer, and politician (d. 1952) 1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (d. 1963) 1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss...
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    neuro-psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti and rapidly replaced less safe and effective forms of biological treatments in use at the time. Cerletti, who had been using...
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    illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome. Impastato has been credited with the...
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    electricity instead of chemicals, was developed by the Italian psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini. They treated their first patient with ECT in April 1938...
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    the Neurobiological Research Institute in Affori which was directed by Ugo Cerletti, who later discovered the electroshock. Mombello and the young Milanese...
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  • Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1879) 1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist and academic (b. 1877) 1966 – Frank O'Hara, American...
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  • States C Donald Calne 1936 - Canada C Ben Carson 1951 - United States C Ugo Cerletti 1877 - 1963 Italy C Charles Gilbert Chaddock 1861 - 1936 United States...
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  • means. Eventually by 1938, ECT was first used in Italy by neurologist Ugo Cerletti to treat schizophrenia. ECT's popularity grew after it was observed that...
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    overseas and to the promotion of friendship with other nations. Died: Ugo Cerletti, 85, Italian neurologist and pioneer of electroconvulsive therapy in...
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  • University; one of the most important geneticists of the 20th century Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), neurologist, co-inventor with Lucio Bini, of the method...
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  • to autistic psychopaths in a lecture (in German) on child psychology. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini discover electroconvulsive therapy. Philip Wiles of Middlesex...
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  • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) being a notable early example. Introduced in 1938 by Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, ECT involves applying electrical currents to the brain...
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  • was known contemporaneously as the inventor of Cavallo's multiplier Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), neurologist, co-inventor with Lucio Bini, of the method...
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  • to measure the density of the Earth, using the Cavendish experiment Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist Marc Chagall, Russian artist initiated in 1912 Thomas...
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  • as a means to attempt to treat schizophrenia.  Meanwhile, in Italy, Ugo Cerletti  substituted injections with electricity. Because of this substitution...
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  • professor of neuropsychiatry Ugo Cerletti was doing research on epilepsy and using electric shocks to induce seizures in dogs. Cerletti visited the Rome abattoir...
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  • 1926–1999 American 1991 psychiatrist of the year, Psychiatric Times Ugo Cerletti 1877–1963 Italian Neurologist, specialised in neuropsychiatry and electroconvulsive...
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  • Caprotti Gerolamo Cardano Antonio Benedetto Carpano Giovanni Caselli Ugo Cerletti Leonardo Chiariglione Alberto Ciaramella Giuseppe Cipriani Francesco...
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  • 1952, 1953 Nominated with M.J.Sakel only (id=2267 id=9822 id=6080) Ugo Cerletti September 26, 1877 Conegliano, Kingdom of Italy July 25, 1963 Rome, Italy...
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