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The Treatment of Mental Disorders by Electrically Induced Convulsions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. E. Hemphill  and
W. Grey Walter
R. E. Hemphill
Affiliation:
Bristol City and County Mental Hospital, and Burden Neurological Institute, Stoke Lane, Stapleton, Bristol
W. Grey Walter
Affiliation:
Bristol City and County Mental Hospital, and Burden Neurological Institute, Stoke Lane, Stapleton, Bristol
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Convulsion therapy in some form is now in common use in the majority of mental hospitals. A method of inducing convulsions by electrical stimulation of the brain was introduced into this country in 1939 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

This method commended itself readily because of the ease of operation, the freedom from special disadvantages inseparable from the use of a blood-borne drug, and the greater accuracy of dosage possible. Several papers describing this method and some early results have already appeared (7, 8, 9, 10).

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 87 , Issue 367 , April 1941 , pp. 256 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1941 

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