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Lucio Bini

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Italian psychiatrist (1908-1964)

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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.

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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.

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Italy
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1908 to 1964 · aged 55
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