Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT ), also known as electroshock , is a well-established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patie...
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Shock therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shock therapy or shock treatment may refer to: • A form of aversion therapy where an electric shock is used as a negative stimulus • Electroconvulsive therapy or "Electroshock", the deliberate and ...
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Electric shock therapy is more effective than drugs for some depression patients. ... Shock Therapy: Still Here, Still Used ... They also reviewed trials comparing so-called unilateral treatment, in which shock therapy is given on just one side of the brain, to that in which both sides of the brain were treated.
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Information on electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, which may be used to treat patients suffering from severe depression. ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is typically used to treat severe depression. During ECT, an electric current is briefly applied through the scalp to the brain, inducing a seizure.
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (also known as Electroshock or ECT) was introduced in the 1930s. Today, ... Electrodes are placed on the head and an electric current is applied (for a second or less) and passes through the brain, inducing a grand mal seizure. During the seizure, the patient does not experience pain.
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A Brief History of Electroshock Therapy (ECT) ... The doctor presses a button and electric current shoots through the brain, causing a grand-mal seizure for 20 seconds. Usually, the patient wakes up in about 30 minutes. I remember waking up completely confused and not knowing where ... Shock works like antidepressant medication,
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RESULTS: The dapsone therapy group demonstrated significantly less induration and necrosis (P < .05) than that shown by the other three groups 72 hours after envenomation. CONCLUSION: Dapsone therapy is more effective than either electric shock or no therapy for brown recluse spider envenomation in the guinea pig model.
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The side effects of a five-times bilateral electric shock therapy were clinically and computer-tomographically investigated. ... The side effects of a five-times bilateral electric shock therapy were clinically and computer-tomographically investigated. A connection exists between the number of electric shock treatments...
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*Electric shock is also called electro-convulsive "therapy" or treatment (ECT), electroshock therapy or electric shock treatment (EST), electrostimulation, and electrolytic therapy (ELT). All are euphemistic terms for the same process: sending a searing blast of electricity through the brain in order to alter behavior.
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