Lucio Bini

{{Short description|Italian psychiatrist and professor (1908-1964)}}

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Lucio Bini (18 September 1908 – 15 August 1964) was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist and a psychiatrist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a type of shock therapy for mental diseases.

References

  • Kalinowsky, LB: Lucio Bini (September 18, 1908 – 1964). Am J Psychiatry (1965) Apr;121:1041-2.

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External Links

  • Lucio Bini Electroconvulsive Therapy Records from the Menninger Foundation Historic Psychiatry Collection available on Kansas Memory http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223271

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Category:Italian neuroscientists

Category:Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome

Category:1908 births

Category:1964 deaths

Category:20th-century Italian inventors

Category:Neurophysiologists

Category:20th-century Italian physicians

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