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Electroconvulsive Therapy

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), or shock therapy, remains a critical biomedical intervention for severe, treatment-resistant depression. While its origins can be traced back to Hippocrates' observations that malaria-induced convulsions alleviated mental illness, modern ECT has evolved significantly from its earlier, more primitive applications. First introduced in 1938 by Ugo Cerletti and his colleagues, ECT involves inducing controlled seizures using electrical currents. In its early...

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): protocols for variations in technique

Daniel B Kellner¹, Ethan O Bryson, Lauren S Liebman

¹Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY charles.kellner@mssm.edu.

The Journal of ECT

|March 12, 2014

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