Does ECT help schizophrenia?Electroconvulsive Therapy:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or "shock treatment" is a biomedical therapy that has been used to treat severe depression and bipolar disorder among other disorders for people who have not responded to other forms of treatment, such as drug ...
ECT in Schizophrenia: Does indication affect the outcome?This case series illustrates the clinical utility of observations from studies on unilateral and bilateral ECTs, where lower stimulus frequencies have been documented to be more efficient. We conclude by stating that while pre-oxygenation and pre...
ECT in Schizophrenia: Does indication affect the outcome?doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2017.11.035Sayantanava MitraJagadisha ThirthalliAsian J Psychiatr
“One of the reasons ECT isn’t more popular is that for a lot of people, it’s easier and more convenient to just take a pill,” said senior author Bradley Voytek, PhD, professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. “However, in people for whom medications don’t work, electrocon...
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electroconvulsive therapy or ECT – remains an accepted psychiatric treatment to this day, and has proven highly effective in cases of severe depression and bipolar disorder which have not responded to other treatments. But how was ECT invented in the first place, and how does it actually work?
Electroconvulsive (ECT) orshocktherapy is safe and effective on a short-term basis as an alternative for people with very severe clinical depression who have not improved with a number of other treatments or in people who cannot safely take antidepressant medication. It involves the induction ofsei...
Electroconvulsive therapy(ECT).You’re “asleep” under general anesthesia while doctors put electrodes on specific points on your head to stimulate your brain. It’s usually used for major depression, but doctors may consider it for other conditions, especially in severe cases. Most people get it...
While the pathological implication of olfactory impairment for schizophrenia has been extensively studied, the specific role of nasal inflammation in the developmental course of olfactory dysfunction is underexamined. The OE is the peripheral region of the olfactory system in the nasal cavity, where OS...
Other studies may calculated derived variables to define sleep discrepancy quantitatively to measure its relationship with other variables, for example using a difference score of self-report TST – objective TST. To date, there have been limited systematic attempts to synthesise or evaluate the varied...