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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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    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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    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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    and dilapidated material conditions within psychiatric institutions. Ugo Cerletti, the Italian psychiatrist and joint inventor with Lucio Bini of electroconvulsive...
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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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  • 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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    Italian football. Francesco Beccaruzzi, painter Ferruccio Benini, actor. Ugo Cerletti, a neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy...
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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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  • 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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