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Electroconvulsive therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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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