Ladislas J. Meduna
Ladislas Joseph Meduna (born March 27, 1896 in Budapest , † November 30, 1964 in Chicago ) was a Hungarian psychiatrist and the founder of cardiazole cramp therapy .
Meduna studied medicine from 1914 to 1921 and received her doctorate from the University of Budapest in 1921 . In 1922 he became an employee of Károly Schaffer at the brain research center in Budapest and in 1927 went with Schaffer to the psychiatric clinic of the university. He believed that there was an antagonism between schizophrenia and epilepsy . From 1933 he tried to treat schizophrenia by triggering artificial seizures in schizophrenic patients. In first publications he reported on 26 patients, 10 of whom were "cured".
Meduna used camphor to trigger the seizures , later the drug pentetrazole . After a few years, cardiazole spasmodic therapy was replaced by electroconvulsive therapy .
The increasing anti-Semitism under the authoritarian Hungarian regime of Miklós Horthy led him to emigrate to the United States in 1939 , where he became professor of neurology at Loyola University Chicago and worked at the Illinois Psychiatric Institute in Chicago.
literature
- Hans Bangen: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia . Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-927408-82-4 , pages 51-55
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| SURNAME | Meduna, Ladislas J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meduna, Ladislas Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1964 |
| Place of death | Chicago |