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The Effect of Repeated Electroshock on Learning in Depressives

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  • © 1959

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Authors:
  1. Johannes C. Brengelmann

    1. Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie (MONOGRAPHIEN, volume 84)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 1-1

  3. Review of the literature

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 1-7

  4. Conditions of experiment

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 7-14

  5. Results

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 14-38

  6. Discussion

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 38-44

  7. Summary

    • Johannes C. Brengelmann
    Pages 44-45

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 45-52
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Although clinical observations abound, substantiated evidence concerning the effect of electroshock treatment on learning capacity, particularly in depressed patients, is scanty and experimental findings have been conflicting. The experiments reported here were accordingly conducted as a pilot investiga­ tion, visual learning tests involving spatial relations being used to examine in depressed patients: - (a) The extent to which a single electroshock (ES) impairs learning capacity, and the amount of its restoration 30 min, four hours and twenty-eight hours after shock. (b) The effect of repeated shocks (EOT) on learning capacity. (c) The relationship between possibly influential factors and changes in learn­ ing performance. (d) The extent of personality change recorded by "expressive movement" scores after three shocks. Before the experiments, extensive testing was carried out to determine the most suitable testing times. Important points emerging from an initial experiment were re-investigated with a more appropriate test. Finally, certain scores of expres­ sive movement derived from a greatly improved scoring system were used to assess personality changes resulting from electroshock.

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  • Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital University of London, UK

    Johannes C. Brengelmann

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