Lucio Bini (1908 – 1964) was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the

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. Together with

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, a neurophysiologist and a

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, he researched and discovered the method of

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, a type of

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for

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References

*Kalinowsky, LB: Lucio Bini (September 18, 1908 – 1964). ''Am J Psychiatry'' (1965) Apr;121:1041-2. External Links *Lucio Bini Electroconvulsive Therapy Records from the Menninger Foundation Historic Psychiatry Collection available on Kansas Memory http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223271 Italian neuroscientists Sapienza University of Rome faculty 1908 births 1964 deaths 20th-century Italian inventors Neurophysiologists 20th-century Italian physicians {{psychiatrist-stub