Sherwin Nuland: My history of electroshock therapy

It's was very entertaining the theme of which is spoken at this conference, at the same time how it becomes a talk about a personal experience.
Some time ago I saw a documentary on the discovery channel where they spoke about the same, about the first experiments with living persons applying these techniques of electroshock. They talk about theories of reset the brain and showed videos really shocking because they showed people with some kind of delay contorting in pain. Thanks to god, these techniques will be set aside and used only in a responsible manner and in accordance with professional techniques really not like before, it was used in patients siquiatricos and inhumanely. I also saw once a documentary about lobotomy, and I found absolutely fascinating as doctors in the last century began to investigate almost paranormal effects that it had on the human body the manipulation of the brain.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/189