EXPERIENCE WITH PHOTIC STIMULATION IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

GEORGE A. ULETTAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 114, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.2.127

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Intermittent photic stimulation has been of value in psychiatric research in a number of areas which include: (1) the development of screening techniques based upon the EEG driving response and subjective responses to photic stimulation; (2) correlated studies of photic stimulation with psychological tests; (3) studies relating driving response to clinical symptomatology; (4) use in provoking paroxysmal or psychiatric symptoms; (5) use of photic stimulation, together with a convulsant drug to study differences in convulsive thresholds among patients of various diagnostic groups; (6) as a treatment method in photo-shock, and (7) for studies of the neurophysiology of learning.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 114 • Number 2 • August 1957

Pages: 127 - 133

PubMed: 13444476

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Published in print: August 1957

Published online: 1 April 2006

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GEORGE A. ULETT

Department of neurology and psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, and research laboratories of Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.

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EXPERIENCE WITH PHOTIC STIMULATION IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

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