Enkmurun Chibaatar1, Keita Watanabe2, Patrick M Quinn3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.

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概括

电治疗 (ECT) 有效地改善了主要抑郁症 (MDD) 患者的突出网络 (SN) 的结构连接. 此外,ECT还使大脑网络通信正常化,这表明它可以纠正MDD中的异常连接.

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