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Manfred Sakel
Additional recommended knowledgeDr. Sakel was the discoverer of the insulin shock therapy for schizophrenics and other mental patients in 1927, while a young doctor in Vienna. He noted that insulin-induced coma and convulsions, due to the low level of glucose attained in the blood (hypoglycemic crisis) was effective in improving the mental state of drug addicts and psychotics, sometimes dramatically so. His findings indicated that up to 88% of his patients improved with insulin shock therapy, and his method became widely applied for many years in mental institutions worldwide. In the USA and other countries it has been largely replaced by electroconvulsive therapy and other means of treatment, Dr. Sakel died on December 2, 1957, in New York City, NY, USA. ReferencesFink, M (1984) Meduna and the Origins of Convulsive Therapy. American Journal of Psychiatry, 141(9): 1034-1041 This historical and biographical papers discusses the introduction of the shock treatment in psychiatry, the role of a theory of the biological antagonism between epilepsy and schizophrenia, and the contributions of Ladislau von Meduna, Sakel, Ugo Cerletti, and Lucio Bini.
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