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Science 10 April 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3615, pp. 182 - 183
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3615.182
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Amnesic and Punishing Effects of Electroconvulsive Shock

James L. McGaugh 1 and Millard C. Madsen 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene

Rats learned to avoid a place where they were repeatedly given electroconvulsive shock treatments, but the learning was slow in comparison with that obtained with subconvulsive shock. Convulsive shock given 5 seconds after administration of subconvulsive shock retarded place-avoidance learning.


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