Mental Efficiency Levels Before and After Shock Therapy

Wittman, Mary Phyllis; Russell, James T.

doi:10.1080/00221309.1942.10544715

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“…Bolles, Rosen, and Landis (i), Witt-man and Russell (18) and Zubin and Thompson (19) found small but statistically significant changes on tests of concept formation and performance tests. Since there is little evidence on the effect of practice on tests such as the BRL, Weigl, and Vigotsky, it is impossible to determine how much of the change in test performance is attributable to the effect of practice and how much to the effect of treatment.…”

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Performance on the Wechsler-Bellevue scale and insulin shock therapy.

Carp¹

1950

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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INCE Sakel (10) introduced Insulin Shock Treatment (hereafter called 1ST) as a specific treatment for schizophrenia more than ten years ago, there has been considerable speculation and research as to its effect on the psychiatric and psychological condition of patients. Though there have been numerous statistical studies on remission rates following 1ST, there is little agreement. For example, Salzman (n) and Hinko and Lipschutz (6) in recent studies report that remissions are as frequent and as stable in untreated patients as in patients given 1ST. In contrast, Kalinowsky and Hoch (7) conclude, after a survey of the literature, that 1ST results in significantly higher remission rates. Much of the lack of agreement is, of course, attributable to the difficulty in comparing remission rates and similarity of treatment in different hospitals. Diagnostic principles, type of patients selected for treatment, intensity of treatment, criteria for evaluation of treatment, etc., may also vary significantly from hospital to hospital. In an effort to obtain more objective evidence as to the effect of 1ST and to provide prognostic cri-

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Performance on the Wechsler-Bellevue scale and insulin shock therapy.

Carp¹

1950

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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“…Using standard intelligence tests, Wittman (156) found that test scores increase progressively after metrazol treatment begins until the ninth convulsion when they gradually decrease. She and Russell also noted that the intellectual performance improved in interest, attention, and social responsiveness (157).…”

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Shock therapy: psychologic theory and research.

Stainbrook¹

1946

Psychological Bulletin

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“…on mental activity in general, found that memory was not the only mental function to suffer temporary impairment from this form of treatment. Wittman and Russell (1942) also noted that mental efficiency and memory levels following other forms of shock therapy were directly correlated with changes in the patient's general attitude, while much of the German literature stresses the presence of disturbances in other spheres of mental activity as well as that of memory in the Korsakoff states to which post-E.C.T. amnesias are allied.…”

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Memory Studies in Electric Convulsion Therapy

Williams¹

1950

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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Mental Efficiency Levels Before and After Shock Therapy

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Performance on the Wechsler-Bellevue scale and insulin shock therapy.

Performance on the Wechsler-Bellevue scale and insulin shock therapy.

Shock therapy: psychologic theory and research.

Memory Studies in Electric Convulsion Therapy

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