http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/707f526b2168acd19c7b576930eb8b85.pdf 684923aaea750c64b3e627b849597ad2 PDF Text Text July 14, 1970 Dr. Thomas Williams Clinical Research Branch, Room 10Al9 National Institute of mental Health 5454 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, Maryland 20015 Dear Tom, I visited Martin Kat: late last month, he told me that Con~ you were returning to head the section on depression studies. success! wishes for and best your my gratulstions, When studies of ECT are progressing well. We have completed the first study, s comparison of unilateral and bilateral HOT, and found that unilateral electrode placement provides less memory loss, less EEG abnormality (with non-dominant accentustion) but, alas, less clinical ”improvement" as well. The data supports Our our ECT hypothesis of 1961 and 1966. have begun MMECT, and in our pilot studies, confirmed the only for unilateral electrode feasibility of the techniques, not We well. are monitoring oxygenation with placement, but bilateral as EEG during the seizure. and continuously the ear lobe oximetry We have improved our techniques so that we are ready to undertake a more definitive study in the fall. We , ._ .. “s ".1 . ,__._ . :5, "My“, ,4 -ms-Wu;.n.,-.,, w- “W‘FI-‘m-‘mem discussed, there have continued to be some problems in patient control at Gracie Square Hospital endows are now negotiating for beds at Kirby Hospital (division of Manhattan As we State Hospital). This issue should be clarified by mid-September. We have also begun some CSF collections and measurements, collaborating with Alex Ksroznar of Loyola University, who is willing to do the neurohumoral assays. I am writing, however, not only to give you a progress report, but to suggest that the time may be appropriate to call a meeting of the scientists working in ROI and in memory, to review the impact that unilateral electrode placement has on our understanding of brain function, memory and behavior. My associates would like to organize such a meeting, and would like your collaboration. The meeting would A tentative list of participants is attached. and multiple ECT and memory mechanisms, with from chemistry and neurophysiology. The questions contributions of memory functions and the impact localization of concern: the focus on unilateral of seizures, repeated or single; the possible alternate routes of behavioral change with less memory impairment; and, the biochemistry of seizures and their relation to memory mechanisms. �‘- era-czar?“ rr Dr. Williams -2- July 14, 1970 Such a meeting could be held independently or in conjunction with another society, as the Aspen Brain Research series (held in January). We would be willing to contribute substantially to financing the meeting. It may be possible to generate an interesting volume on ECT in such a meeting. martin suggested I send you these thoughts. As I will be away would like to invite you to visit us in early September, to discuss this meeting and to review our ECT program. in August, I Again, my congratulations on your new mission. My Sincerely yours, Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Max MF:kt cc: Dr. Katz J. 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