Ronan Soltesz

Meduna and the origins of the idea that seizures can be therapeutic.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been well discussed in psychiatry as one of the oldest, yet still enduring and effective treatments for several psychiatric disorders, including depression, catatonia, mania, and psychoses. However, the intellectual history of ECT is much less known in the field of epilepsy, in spite...