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Electroconvulsive Therapy

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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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Pupillary Response as Assessment of Effective Seizure Induction by Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Correction to: Electroconvulsive Therapy: a Video-Based Educational Resource Using Standardized Patients

Brandon Kitay¹, Andrés Martin², Julie Chilton³

¹Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

Academic Psychiatry : the Journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry

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