所謂 電氣睡眠治療에 關한 臨床治驗

A CLINICAL OBSERVATION ON THE ELECTROSLEEP THERAPY

The electrosleep therapy (Somlec therapy) is an altificiai sleep similar to tiormal one induced b보 external stimulus of low voltage electric current to scalp surface which relaxes or inhibits cerebral nerve cells. Since A. W. Filomafitcky, a Russian physiologist, first studied in 1836 CNS response of human-beings to electric current, the technique of psychiatric treatment called electrosleep therapy had greatly expanded in Soviet Union for about 20 years. In fecelit it has become much cohceflied in Europe and America. The author reviewed the references to the technique and method, sleep mechanism, various action and function of the electrosleep therapy. Here, the author reports the clinical experience to the response and results of the electrosleep therapy applied in 17 selected cases of patients having insomnia and psychic tension with other psychiatric symptoms