@article{3192960,
    title = "Ugo Cerletti (1877-1963): An Early Italian Father of Electroshock and a
Pioneer in Many Other Ways",
    author = "Kotsaki, Konstantina and Diamantis, Aristidis and Magiorkinis, Emmanouil",
    journal = "The Neuroscientist",
    year = "2021",
    volume = "27",
    number = "5",
    pages = "454-462",
    publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
    issn = "1073-8584, 1089-4098",
    doi = "10.1177/1073858420958381",
    keywords = "Cerletti; biography; electroshock; acroagonines; corpuscles of Cerletti;
neuropsychiatry; neurology; schizophrenia; refractory illnesses",
    abstract = "This article provides a biographical review of the life and the
professional achievements of the Italian doctor Ugo Cerletti and an
introduction on electroshock. Throughout his medical career, he
travelled and studied in many countries all over the world. Building
upon his systematic and comprehensive analysis of mental diseases,
Cerletti introduced electroshock, which, at his time, was a novel
therapeutic method. The main beneficial feature of electroshock was that
it ameliorated refractory mental illnesses such as depression, mania,
and schizophrenia. Additionally, Cerletti filmed the first scientific
movie on electroshock. Furthermore, Cerletti left great lessons in the
area of dementia, by proving the interaction between spirochaetes and
progressive paralysis and exploring the causes of inflammation in the
syphilitic brain. Cerletti was the first to announce the theory of
acroagonines. Cerletti also made early discoveries on perivascular
corpuscles, a discovery of such importance that the perivascular
corpuscles are named corpuscles of Cerletti. Outside of the medical
realm, Cerletti invented a new type of gun, and produced an early
medical documentary. Cerletti received many national and international
distinctions and awards. He died in 1963 at the age of 86."
}