THE CORRELATION OF PRE-ELECTROSHOCK ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM AND THERAPEUTIC RESULT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
WILLIAM J. TURNER M. C., A. U. S.1,
LOUIS LOWINGER B. S. S.1, , and
JAMES H. HUDDLESON M. C., A. U. S.1
1 The Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Veterans Facility, Northport, L. I., N. Y.
A table is presented showing the relationship of EEG before treatment to outcome of electric shock therapy, in 187 schizophrenics, of whom 95 percent were young men. One-fourth of those with a normal pattern left the hospital much improved or "quiescent." None of these with abnormal records was able to leave the hospital. Of 19 patients who had previously had insulin therapy 3 left the hospital much improved.[See Table 1 in source Pdf]
