# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ladislas-joseph-meduna
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:02:08.502Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ladislas-joseph-meduna"
name: "Ladislas Joseph Meduna"
slug: "ladislas-joseph-meduna"
description: "Ladislas Joseph Meduna was a Hungarian neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist who initiated convulsive treatment, the repeated induction of grand mal seizures, as a treatment of psychosis. Observing the high concentration of glia in post-mortem brains of patients with epilepsy and a paucity in those with schizophrenia, he proposed that schizophrenia might be treated by inducing \"epileptic\" seizures. Thus, chemically induced seizures became the electroconvulsive therapy that is now in worldwide use."
tagline: "Hungarian-American neurologist and neuropathologist (1896–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ladislas_J._Meduna.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1896-03-27"
deathDate: "1964-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           8.083658666666667
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "拉迪斯拉斯·J·马杜纳"
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    title: "Ladislas J. Meduna"
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    title: "Ladislas J. Meduna"
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    title: "László Medura"
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    title: "Ladislas J. Meduna"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medura_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3"
    title: "Medura László"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislas_Meduna"
    title: "Ladislas Meduna"
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    title: "Медуна, Ласло"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump