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Biochemical Changes Following Electroshock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Poul Astrup,
Henning Gøtzsche,
Bjørn Ibsen and
Ib Munkvad
Poul Astrup
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Henning Gøtzsche
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjørn Ibsen
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
Ib Munkvad
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Department (Senior Physician: Villars Lunn) and the Medical Department B (Senior Physician: Erik Warburg) of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and from the Central Laboratory of the Blegdam Hospital (Director: Poul Astrup), Copenhagen, Denmark
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Experiments with animals have shown that electrostimulation of brain tissue is followed by a number of biochemical changes in the brain. The information obtainable is limited since there are only comparitively few reports about investigations in this field (4).

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 423 , April 1955, pp. 363 - 365
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

References

1. Astrup, P., and Munkvad, I., “On the determination of glutamine and glutamic acid in plasma”, Scand. Jour. Clin. and Lab. Invest., 1950, 2, 133.Google Scholar
2. Krebs, H. A., “Quantitative determination of glutamine and glutamic acid”, Biochem. J., 1948, 43, 51.Google Scholar
3. Munkvad, I., “Glutaminsyre og glutaminbestemmelser i plasma paa et psykiatrisk patientmateriale”, Thesis, 1951, Copenhagen.Google Scholar
4. Richter, D., and Dawson, R. C., “The ammonia and glutamine content of the brain”, J. Biol. Chem., 1948, 176, 1199.Google Scholar
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