Birth Name:

David J. Impastato

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Jan 08, 1903

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, Italy

Age:

121

Zodiac Sign:

Capricorn

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Cap

0'

About David J. Impastato

David John Impastato, M.D. – born January 8, 1903 (Mazara del Vallo, Sicily), died February 28, 1986 (Pasadena, California) – was a neuropsychiatrist who pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States. A treatment for mental illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome. Impastato has been credited with the earliest documented use of the revolutionary method in North America, administered in early 1940 to a schizophrenic female patient in New York City. Soon after, he and colleague Dr. Renato Almansi completed the first case study of ECT to appear in a U.S. publication. Impastato spent the next four decades refining the technique, gaining recognition as one of its most authoritative spokesmen. He taught, lectured widely and published over fifty articles on his work. He called on ECT practitioners to observe the strictest protocols of patient safety, countered resistance to ECT from both the medical and cultural establishments, and met later challenges to electroconvulsive therapy from developments in psychopharmacology. Impastato would live to see ECT recommended by the American Psychiatric Association for a distinct core of intractable mental disorders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took longer to respond to the treatment's potential. But in 2016 the FDA drafted guidelines for ECT similar to those of the APA, as well as proposing regulations for treatment with Class II and Class III devices. Though still not free of controversy, electroconvulsive therapy is the treatment of choice for an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the United States.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for David J. Impastato: Sun 17 Capricorn, Moon 6 Taurus, Mercury 2 Aquarius, Venus 26 Capricorn, Mars 7 Libra, Jupiter 19 Aquarius, Saturn 28 Capricorn, Uranus 22 Sagittarius, Neptune 1 Cancer, Pluto 18 Gemini, Mercury Quincunx Neptune, Sun Quincunx Pluto, Mercury Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Venus Conjunct Saturn, Mars Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Trine Pluto, Uranus Opposition Pluto

Categories related to David J. Impastato: January 8 births, 1986 deaths, Italian emigrants to the United States, 1903 births, History of neuroscience, People from Mazara del Vallo, Italian neuroscientists, Physical psychiatric treatments, Scientists from Sicily

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