Ladislas Joseph Meduna

Ladislas Joseph Meduna (1896–1964) was a Hungarian neuropathologist and neuropsychiatrist who pioneered convulsive therapy as a treatment for psychosis. He is best known for inducing seizures in patients with schizophrenia beginning in 1934, work that led to the development of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He later emigrated to the United States and served as a professor of neurology at Loyola University in Chicago, continuing his research at the Illinois Psychiatric Institute until his death.