About Lucio Bini
Lived 1908 – 1964 (aged 55–56). Lucio Bini was an Italian neurologist, neuroscientist, inventor and psychiatrist.
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.
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Who was Lucio Bini?
Italian psychiatrist (1908–1964)
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Lucio Bini was born in 1908 in Rome.
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Lucio Bini died in 1964 in Rome.
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Lucio Bini was a neurologist, neuroscientist, inventor and psychiatrist.
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Lucio Bini was Italian.
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