THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH SUSTAINED EXPOSURE TO HEXAFLUORODIETHYL ETHER

1 February 1960

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease

Vol. 130 (2) , 155-159
https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-196002000-00009

Abstract

Repeated exposure to the convulsant inhalant, hexafluorodiethyl ether (Indoklon) within the limitations of this investigation resulted in no serious sequelae or complications. Minimal or questionable clinical improvement was observed in a group of 8 chronic female schizophrenic patients with extremely poor prognoses.

Keywords

ETHER, ETHYL/RELATED COMPOUNDS
SCHIZOPHRENIA/THERAPY
SHOCK THERAPY