Ladislas Meduna

GPTKB entity

Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:birthDate 1896-03-27
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Budapest,_Hungary
gptkbp:deathDate 1964-11-24
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Chicago,_Illinois,_USA
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Budapest
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_Illinois
gptkbp:ethnicity Hungarian Jewish
gptkbp:field neurology
psychiatry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ladislas Meduna
gptkbp:influenced development of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
gptkbp:knownFor development of convulsive therapy
pioneering use of metrazol-induced seizures in psychiatry
gptkbp:nationality Hungarian
gptkbp:notableWork Die Konvulsionstherapie der Schizophrenie
Seizure: The Story of Epilepsy
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:neuroscientist
gptkb:psychologist
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Margit_Meduna
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Meduna
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7