Show I I Make Gains in Help to Insane Use Ue of Electrical Current Found Efficient in Some Forms Form of Disease NEW NSW yORK YO YORK New New New advances in Inthe inthe the treatment of ot split spilt personality and an some ome other forms terms of insanity wore were saluted related to American Psyche attic atric association at its annual anal meeting Dr Esther Either B Los Lo Angeles psychiatrist told of ot experiments pith frith iI a mesas means of ot rIth 1 l maintaining unconsciousness by continued application of electrical current She s reported 20 30 treatments bad been been en given liven to 9 93 D patients and that of W the th those tho with I 1 i the personality personality personality-lg 18 out of 33 Lt made complete recoveries Nine were war able 11 1 to return home horns to more or less Ie normal Dormal living two tiro were wen moderately Improved and two un us un- un unImproved improved The Th Tb other ether two tilled tailed to finish the th treatments treatment In two years ear Dr said id there were Ir no DO relapses In this particular group croUP of patients AD to Showed Progress She reported that of 18 IB patients treated for tor depression all aU made mad either a complete recovery or one on sufficient to enable them to carry carryon on in a socially acceptable manner Dr said ald many of the so- so so called caned psychosomatic complaints disappeared ared These Tha Include bead head lobe ache gastro o Intestinal tyr Ita gp p i 1 e t st Ii heartbeat irregularity migraine asthma acu pains pain loss lOll of appe apps tit Ute tite and anel insomnia she he said may offer der a short abon cut to treatment of such disorders Another advance was reported by Dr William A A Horwitz and Dr Luther B of ot New York State Psychiatric Institute and Ind hos hos- hospital ho pital who told of 01 combining Insulin with electro electro shock treatment for the best beat results Both types of ot treatment they said paid are of ot value value In treating but better results were ob oh ob- ob obtained tamed In the more serious eases cue by using Ulin the combined treatment They treated a group loup of 01 80 pa- pa pa patient tient from 13 18 to 48 yean years of age ae be- be between be be- between tween July 1942 and January of t this thil year Many Improved Immediately after alter treatment the doctors doctora reported one patient was recovered 21 much improved 29 improved and 23 28 unimproved After Alter three months there thero was woo one re re- re recovery recovery covery 17 much improved 28 im ho- ho proved and Ind 40 fD unimproved j The doctors doctor laid aid this thia relatively poor proportion of 01 successful re- re poni 1 wa was not a measure of the efficacy of the treatment A later checkup the period vary ing In from six months month a to more than three years year showed 22 much much- Im tm proved 14 If Improved and 42 noun noun- proved Those Thol who were in m the longest before receiving the tho com bored treatment showed the great leat greatest est et tendency to relapse they reported re re- re reported ported |