Electrotherapy for melancholia: The pioneering contributions of Benjamin Franklin and Giovanni Aldini

Journal of ECT

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-18

  Bolwig, Tom G ^a,c   Fink, Max ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; History of electroconvulsive therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIFOCAL LENS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CADAVER; CEREBELLUM; CONFUSION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCUTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENT; GALVANIC CURRENT; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INDEPENDENCE; LIBRARIAN; MAGNETISM; MANIA; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; PARALYSIS; PHYSICS; QUACKERY; SARCOIDOSIS; SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES; URINARY CATHETER; ANIMAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTORY; ITALY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ITALY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649210416     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: 15334112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e318191b6e3     Document Type: Article

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