# Lucio Bini

> Lucio Bini 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. He is regarded as the technical and physiological architect of electroconvulsive therapy, designing the original Cerletti-Bini apparatus used to induce therapeutic seizures in patients with psychotic disorders in 1938-1939.

*Italian psychiatrist (1908-1964)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1908-09-18
- **Died:** 1964-08-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
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