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The Effect of Repeated Electroshock on Learning in Depressives

Although clinical observations abound, substantiated evidence concerning the effect of electroshock treatment on learning capacity, particularly in depressed patients, is scanty and experimental findings have been conflicting. The experiments reported here were accordingly conducted as a pilot inves...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brengelmann, J.C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1959, 1959
Edition:1st ed. 1959
Series:Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie
Subjects:
Neurology 
Neurology
Counseling Psychology
Psychiatry
Counseling
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 4. Difficulties in assessment and prediction of improvement in depression
  • 5. The relationship of learning in human beings to other changes
  • 6. Theoretical considerations
  • 7. Suggestions for future work
  • F. Summary
  • 3. Experiment III: Relationship of intelligence to immediate postshock impairment
  • 4. Experiment IV: The role of perception in immediate postshock impairment
  • 5. Correlations of other factors with impairment of learning capacity after one shock
  • 6. Experiment V: Learning capacity as a function of repeated shocks (difficult learning task)
  • 7. Relationship of various factors to learning changes
  • 8. Impairment in learning capacity and the organic syndrome
  • 9. Experiment VIa: Learning changes during the first three shocks
  • 10. Experiment VI b: Changes in “expressive movement” scores as a result of three shocks
  • 11. The “disintegrating” effect of electroshock
  • 12. The progressive fixation of disintegrated learning behaviour
  • E. Discussion
  • 1. Learning capacity as a function of number of shocks
  • 2. Learning capacity inanimals as related to present problems
  • 3. Clinical considerations regarding memory impairment
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Review of the literature
  • 1. The course of psychological disturbances after a single shock
  • 2. Clinical evidence of memory disturbance as a function of number of shocks
  • 3. Recovery of learning capacity after a single electroshock
  • 4. Learning performance as a function of repeated shocks
  • 5. The electroencephalogram during shock treatment
  • C. Conditions of experiment
  • 1. Subjects
  • 2. Diagnosis
  • 3. Electroshock apparatus
  • 4 Administration of shocks
  • 5. Learning stimuli
  • 6. Test procedure in experiments I and V (easy and difficult task)
  • 7. Scoring and reliability of scoring
  • 8. Schedule of tests in experiments I and V
  • 9. Ratings of depression
  • 10. Synopsis of experiments performed
  • 11. Discussion and definition of scores analysed
  • D. Results
  • 1. Experiment I: Recovery of learning capacity after a single shock (easy learning task)
  • 2. Experiment II: Effect of drugs in combination with treatment

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