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Learning Ability During a Course of 20 Electroshock Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. G. Thorpe
J. G. Thorpe*
Affiliation:
Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
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Recent work at this hospital (Thorpe and Baker, 1958) has suggested that schizophrenic patients tested one week after completing a course of twenty E.C.T.s do not show significantly more impairment in some psychological functions than similar patients treated with insulin coma or chlorpromazine therapies. This finding may come as a surprise to many, particularly in view of the fact that disorientation, memory loss, and confusion are frequently seen during the course of electrical treatment.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 441 , October 1959 , pp. 1017 - 1021
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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VII. References

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