A study of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in Alzheimer type dementia has been performed on 6 elderly subjects (mean age: 67.5). Patients were included if they met DSM-III criteria for primary degenerative dementia. They presented important loss of memory function (in short-term memory-...
Insulin shock therapy or insulin coma therapy (ICT) was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks.[1] It was introduced in 1927 by Austrian-American psychiatrist Manfred Sakel and use...
Medical association opposes transfer of psychiatric clinics to private companyJUDY SIEGEL