What is most incredible is that doctors do not know why ECT actually works to fight mental illnesses, which often makes making a decision to have ECT even more difficult for a patient. It seems so unscientific and remains a mystery. But her...
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Electroconvulsive therapy — Learn how modern-day ECT treats depression. ... Electroconvulsive therapy is quite different today. Although electroconvulsive therapy can still cause side effects and complications, it now uses precisely calculated electrical currents administered in a controlled setting to achieve the...
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Electroconvulsive therapy is a treatment for depression that uses electricity to induce a seizure. ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is most often performed in a hospital's operating or recovery room under general anesthesia. Electricity is delivered to the brain for several seconds to cause seizure activity.
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1 surely this is a last resort in dealing with depression as surely the electric shock to the neurotransmitters of the brain must be traumatized as this is only a stop gap measure and does not solve the problem. - anon19800
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An annotated review of the research is provided to back up each of the author's assertions about medical effects and lack of efficacy of electroshock. Informed Consent; Legal Parameters of Informed Consent Applied to Electroconvulsive Therapy.
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Barbara C. Cody B.Sc., R.N. Electroshock Survivor, Activist, Writer, Speaker "What Difference Does It Make?" is a courageous young woman's experience of psychiatric hospitalization and tragic life altering, memory robbing effects of Electroshock "therapy".
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www.ect.org/books/ect.html
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These are first-person stories of experiences with ECT - electroconvulsive therapy, also called electroshock therapy - from our community. They are readers, forum members, ... However, in the past two years, I have had several courses of ECT to treat psychotic, suicidal depression and believe me, ECT was the only thing...
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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...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Electroconvulsive Therapy [instrumentation]
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/5733485
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