Lucio Bini (18 September 1908 – 15 August 1964) was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

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. Together with

Ugo Cerletti Ugo Cerletti (26 September 1877 – 25 July 1963) was an Italian neurology, neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to pro ...

, a neurophysiologist and a

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, he researched and discovered the method of

electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatry, psychiatric treatment that causes a generalized seizure by passing electrical current through the brain. ECT is often used as an intervention for mental disorders when other treatments are inadequ ...

, a type of shock therapy for

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References

*Kalinowsky, LB: Lucio Bini (September 18, 1908 – 1964). ''Am J Psychiatry'' (1965) Apr;121:1041-2. External Links *Lucio Bini Electroconvulsive Therapy Records from the Menninger Foundation Historic Psychiatry Collection available on Kansas Memory http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223271 Italian neuroscientists Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome 1908 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Italian inventors Neurophysiologists 20th-century Italian physicians {{psychiatrist-stub