When Was Insulin Shock Therapy Used?
When Was Insulin Shock Therapy Used? It was introduced in 1927 by Austrian-American psychiatrist Manfred Sakel and used extensively in the 1940s and 1950s, mainly for schizophrenia, before falling out of favour and being replaced by neuroleptic drugs in the 1960s. When was insulin shock treatment used? In 1933 the psychiatrist Manfred Sakel of Vienna