While placing electrodes on both sides of the brain (bilaterally) is thought to be more effective than unilateral placement, memory loss tends to worsen, even to the level of brain damage with bilateral treatment. Other side effects may include headache, high or low blood pressure, rapid heart...
现代ECT 比以前安全许多, but patients can still experience side effects. 但对病人仍然可能会有副作用。 They may feel achy, fatigued, or nauseated right after treatment. 病人在治疗后可能会觉得疼痛、疲劳、噁心。 Some have trouble remembering what happened right before a session— 有些人会无法记住在...
variation in the extent and severity of such effects . In addition, the cognitive effects of ECT in persons with schizophrenia are unclear, since most studies of cognition after ECT have involved patients treated for depression. For many patients, however, the ECT treatment and its associated anes...
Electroconvulsive therapy is extremely effective and is the fastest acting antidepressant treatment now available, although not necessarily limited to use with depression. Despite years of experience with this technique and its unparalleled successes, patients continue to be affected by mostly transient, but...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is of the most effective treatments available for treatment-resistant depression, yet it is underutilized in part due to its reputation of causing cognitive side effects in a significant number of patients. Despite intensive neuroimaging research on ECT in the past two...
Side effects of ECT treatments that affect your mental alertness are usually mild and brief. The most common ones are: Confusion, usually lasting from a few minutes to a few hours afterward Temporarymemory loss, which could involve events just before ECT or those during the weeks of treatment ...
Conclusions: ECT, an effective treatment for depression, does not cause significant side effects or neuropsychological impairment, which are more likely to be depressive phenomena. ECT appears to be safe for old (≥65 years) and very old (≥75 years) patients, who do not appear to be more ...
but patients can still experience side effects. 但对病人仍然可能会有副作用。 They may feel achy, fatigued, or nauseated right after treatment. 病人在治疗后可能会觉得疼痛、疲劳、噁心。 Some have trouble remembering what happened right before a session— ...
In addition to being an effective treatment option for mental health conditions, ECT is also a safe option. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have approved ECT therapy for clinical use. Also, ECT therapy only occurs with ...
What that refers to is the treatment that is delivered with repetitive changing magnetic fields or pulses towards the brain. This picture is an example of the coil, the magnet coil and with the fields dispersing on either side and we place it close and over the location of the prefrontal ...