Lucio Bini [proxy]

Lucio Bini
Born	1908
Died	1964 (aged 55–56)
Occupations	Psychiatrist, professor

Lucio Bini (18 September 1908 – 15 August 1964) 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.^[1]

^ Faedda, Gianni L.; Becker, Ivan; Caliari, Beatrice; Glenn, Alan D. (2010). "The origins of electroconvulsive therapy: Prof. Bini's first report on ECT". Journal of Affective Disorders. 120 (1–3): 12–15. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2009.04.019. PMID 19268370.

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