Lucio Bini

Lucio Bini (1908–1964) was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza who co-developed electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with Ugo Cerletti in 1938. He designed and built the original Cerletti–Bini apparatus, the first device used to safely induce therapeutic seizures via electrical stimulation, and introduced the method internationally at the 1939 Copenhagen Neurological Congress. He later served as Director of Neurology at San Camillo Hospital in Rome.