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Electroconvulsive Shock Does Not Increase Plasma Insulin in Rats
Arun B. Thiagarajan1, Christoph H. Gleiter, David J. Nutt
1Laboratory of Clinical Studies, DICBR, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This study examines the time course of plasma insulin and glucose concentrations following a single electroconvulsive shock (ECS) and the last of 10 once-daily ECS in rats. In contrast to a report in humans, neither single nor repeated ECS leads to an increase of plasma insulin. There was only a slight increase in blood glucose concentrations following either treatment.