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KMID : 0368819750140040432
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Journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatr Association
1975 Volume.14 No. 4 p.432 ~ p.435
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A CLINICAL OBSERVATION ON THE ELECTROSLEEP THERAPY
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Abstract
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The electrosleep therapy (Somlec therapy) is an artificial sleep similar to normal one induced by external stimulus of low voltage electric current to scalp surface which relaxes or inhibits cerebral nerve cells.
Since A. W. Filomafitcky, a Russian physiologist, first studied in 1836 CNS response of human-beings to electric current, the technique of psychiatric treatment called electrosleep therapy had greatly expanded in Soviet Union for about 20 years.
In recent it has become much concerned in Europe and America. The author reviewed the references to the technique and method, sleep mechanism, various action and function of the electrosleep therapy. Here, the author reports the clinical experience to the response and results of the electrosleep therapy applied in 17 selected cases of patients having insomnia and psychic tension with other psychiatric symptoms.
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