Epilepsy

  • Sargant, William Walters, 1907-1988
Date:
c.1939-1950
Reference:
PP/WWS/D/7
Part of:
Sargant, William Walters (1907-1988)
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

While in the USA in 1938, WWS worked on the psychological symptomology of overbreathing and the relationship of emotional overbreathing with attacks of petit mal epilepsy. He collaborated with Robert S Schwab, a pioneer in electrical brain wave diagnosis.

Publication/Creation

c.1939-1950

Physical description

5 files

Copyright note

Copyright in most records will be held by Sargant's family, and researchers wishing to publish copies from this collection should contact them for permission. Belmont Hospital, from which some records originated, is closed, and there is no record of who would have inherited the copyright of records originating here.

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