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Biochemical Changes Following Electroshock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Poul Astrup
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Henning Gøtzsche
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjørn Ibsen
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Ib Munkvad
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark

Extract

Experiments with animals have shown that electrostimulation of brain tissue is followed by a number of biochemical changes in the brain. The information obtainable is limited since there are only comparitively few reports about investigations in this field (4).

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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