http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/82f203a40b440b0ca7140332b64e06dd.pdf 9c0f543ad975fd0957bd7a33a87ff0b6 PDF Text Text October 22, 19634 Dr. Fini Sehuleinger Chief Huysioim, Psychiatric Clinic Kamehoepitalet , Copenhagen K. , Dermmk DearFini: Itwasegmttpleasuretohearfmnyou, andIam pleased to write you on the second anniversary of the estab— lishment of our Institute. As you described the problem in establishing om study, you can well imagine the problem of establishing many. It has been an interesting time and during ‘ tmpest fwmnmlfindmatlhedefwowesimsmml could return to the research world. I am very soda interested in your study, for if you om separate the congenital problems from enviromentel in schizopluenie you will be doing much for our field. One of our studies is an attempt to measure neurophysiologio differences in thwe patients who are still in the institution and those who leave after relatively short periods of tmetrmnt. Our enphasis, as you can imagine, is to determine differences in msponsivity in the subjects to external agents. and these differences in terms of EEG charges, tolerance mm and some biochemical. masons. I an pleased also to try to answer yew question about BCI‘. This problem is an old one and when I did sous studies in commisive thempy looked seriwsly at the differences between direct cutout md alternating ourment instnrnents. You may re» cell that early in the 1950's there was a great deal of interest met subomwlsive or direct current treetnent might have fewer side effects than the conventional alternating current methods. As a consequence, during one of our studies we compmd the clinical, electrmphic, and psychological test charges in a group of patients randomly assimed to suboonvulsive, threshold omvulsive using an alternating cutout instmment, e convulsive nethod using direct . . ~ current (parethreshold—«direotionel on the figure) and suprathreshold—alternating current instrument. The results ized in the short report in the diseases of the Nervous System, and in the figure which I am pleased to enclose. Depending on your m SW .2: �October 22, 52.. 196|+ Dr. Fini Schulsinger theoretical model for the node of action of convulsive therapy, you will either believe that high degree slow wave activity in the electroencephalog‘mn is an important and variable index in the therapeutic response or you will believe that it is a side effect with mgative cometations. will If you believe the former, as I do, then the figureachieved slow wave damastrate that high defies activity is with suprethreshold alternating oment instrumnt earlier and smtained better during a three times a week treatment . period than with any other method. The differences between the three convulsive methods and subconvmsive is very significmt. The differenms between the convulsive treaumnt methods is slight. When Martin Green and I did this study, we used to say that therapists in private practice using unidirectimal mdfims world on the average make $25~50 mm per- patient than those using the alternating cument Mine! Bythisweneantthattheywouldtendtoseevarious than those patients five days clinical results three to later treated by supmthreslmld alternating current nethods. So, inanswertoyowquestim, ifIhadtobuyamaclfinehem I would insist on an alternating current instrument. Plowever, I had a midirectional machine available at no cost, I if muld wider the difference so trivial that I would comtinue to use that machine. What ever happened to your comtional Per is Usden? are rapidly approaching our winter seasm. Temis is still my major pre-occupation, and when I do not travel for the National Institute of Health or for the Institute, I find the days in St. Louis pleasant and relaxing. I missed visiting you this sumer, and I regret that my assodate did not visit you became I feel that he could have learned much. However, there will be another- summer The summer and over here and we I will look forward to visiting with oppor'tmiity. My ' enes. at 115: earliest best regards to your family and to Dr. Katy. . Inf/ls you Sincerely yours , 1% PM, NJ). Director � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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