insulin shock therapy

• Исторический метод психиатрического лечения, ныне в значительной степени устаревший, при котором пациентам вводили большие дозы инсулина для вызывания комы и судорог, что, как считалось, помогало при таких состояниях, как шизофрения.

A historical psychiatric treatment, now largely obsolete, in which patients were injected with large doses of insulin to induce a coma and convulsions, believed to treat conditions like schizophrenia.

1. Historical psychiatric treatmentC2formal

   A controversial and largely abandoned medical procedure used in the mid-20th century to treat schizophrenia and other mental disorders by inducing a coma or seizures through large doses of insulin.

   Инсулиношоковая терапия

   • Insulin shock therapy was once a common but risky treatment for severe mental illness.
   • The use of insulin shock therapy declined after the introduction of antipsychotic medications.
   • Historical records show that insulin shock therapy had serious side effects.