Ugo Cerletti

This page lists items in the database related to Italian neurologist and psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti (b. Conegliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy, 26 September 1867; d. Rome, Italy, 25 June 1963):

• Centro Studi Bonifica Bellica “Ugo Cerletti” in Conegliano

• Cerletti’s First Electroshock Apparatus in the Museo di Storia della Medicina, Rome

• Clinica delle Malattie Nervose e Mentali in Rome with:
  • First use of Electroshock memorial tablet
  • Ugo Cerletti’s memorial tablet

• Hotel Auronzo in Auronzo

• Mombello Psychiatric Hospital in Limbiate

• Old Rome’s slaughterhouse in Rome

• Ospedaletto 042 in Auronzo

Bibliography

– W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, Dictionary of medical biography, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 2, pp. 315.
– B. Marcuzzo, G. De Donà and W. Musizza, Sei Mesi in Guerra sulle Dolomiti, Edizioni DBS (2014)
– R.Passione, Ugo Cerletti. Il romanzo dell’elettroshock, Aliberti, Reggio Emilia 2007
– E.Shorter and D.Healy, Shock therapy. A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2007
– E. Sirgiovanni (2022), Acroagonines: Ugo Cerletti’s audacious attempt to place the neurophysiological effects of electroconvulsive therapy in vials. Medical History, 66(3), 185-206. doi:10.1017/mdh.2022.16

• Photo courtesy of Cerletti’s Archive