The Rationale for Shocking the Brains of Mental Patients to Produce

question 116

Multiple Choice

The rationale for shocking the brains of mental patients to produce a seizure was that

• A) psychiatric patients show abnormal electrical activity of the cortex.
• B) painful shock made the patients more manageable.
• C) the occurrence of a brain seizure appeared to reduce symptoms in psychiatric patients.
• D) large doses of insulin had been shown to normalize brain activity.
• E) such treatments curbed inappropriate behavior.

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