Insulin and the mind: Coma therapy in schizophrenia
DD Vol 8 Issue 1 2009
Today’s diabetes world is fast-moving and exciting; knowledge is accumulating at an astonishing rate. To help understand the present, however, it sometimes helps to examine the past. In this installment of Tattersall’s Tales, Robert Tattersall takes us back to the 1930s, recounting the fascinating history of insulin coma therapy, a then new and exciting treatment for schizophrenia, until it was gradually phased out in the late 1950s.
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