Lucio Bini
Italian psychiatrist
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treatment of mental disorders
- In mental disorder: Development of physical and pharmacological treatments
…Italian psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini in 1938. Electroconvulsive treatment was more successful in alleviating states of severe depression than in treating symptoms of schizophrenia. Psychosurgery, or surgery performed to treat mental illness, was introduced by Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz in the 1930s. The
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