The condition also was referred to as depressive stupor.
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The APA guidelines confirm clinical observations dating from Impastato's earliest ECT research . " The most favorable results, " he wrote with Almansi in 1940, " have been obtained in cases of recent onset, in catatonic and depressive stupor, and in the group of schizoid-depressives . " Just a few months before, without establishment support, Impastato had given his first electroconvulsive treatment.