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The outcome of electric shock therapy in the New York Civil State Hospitals

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This review of the results of electric shock therapy permits the following conclusions:

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    The results of such treatment of patients with dementia præcox, measured in terms of recovery and much improvement, are not so good as corresponding results with groups of patients treated with insulin.

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    The results are more favorable than those produced by metrazol.

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    Rates of recovery and of improvement among patients with dementia præcox following electric shock therapy are superior to those shown by control series.

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    Electric shock is especially efficacious among patients with manic-depressive psychoses and involutional disorders.

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  1. See for example, Malzberg, Benjamin: Social and Biological Aspects of Mental Disease, Chapter XIV. State Hospitals Press. Utica, N. Y. 1940.

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  2. Pollock, Horatio M.: Mental Disease and Social Welfare. Chapter XII. State Hospitals Press. Utica, N. Y. 1941.

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  3. See reference 2, page 175.

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  1. Statistical Bureau, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, Albany, N. Y.

    Benjamin Malzberg Ph.D.

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Malzberg, B. The outcome of electric shock therapy in the New York Civil State Hospitals. Psych Quar 17, 154–163 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01572739

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