A person usually needs six to 12 treatments for this medical therapy to be effective. The patient is awake in five to 10 minutes. The most common side effects of ECT include brief confusion immediately after the procedure, as well as a temporary loss of short-term memory, which usually ...
Despite years of experience with this technique and its unparalleled successes, patients continue to be affected by mostly transient, but sometimes impairing side effects from memory problems and cardiovascular changes associated with ECT treatments. Nausea, headache, muscle aches, and other side effects...
Patients often continue less frequent treatments for several months to a year, 病人通常会减低频率但持续治疗数个月至一年, and some need occasional maintenance sessions for the rest of their lives. 有些人一生中都会偶尔需要做维护治疗。 Modern ECT is much safer than it used to be, 现代ECT 比以前...
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 ...
Patients often continue less frequent treatments for several months to a year, 病人通常会减低频率但持续治疗数个月至一年, and some need occasional maintenance sessions for the rest of their lives. 有些人一生中都会偶尔需要做维护治疗。 Modern ECT is much safer than it used to be, ...
The incidence of side-effects present 24 hours after electroconvulsive therapy was studied in 96 patients who between them received 500 treatments in a consecutive series. None of the side-effects occurred frequently: headache was experi... J Gomez,J Gomez - 《British Journal of Psychiatry the Jo...
摘要: Presents instructions for the patient undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. Series of treatments; Procedures; Side effects; Advice.关键词:Parosmia anosmia questionnaire olfaction phantosmias DOI: 10.1016/S0924-977X(99)80149-7 年份: 1999
we still do not understand its neural mechanisms, although clinical "EEG slowing" has been associated with these treatments for decades. In our previous longitudinal study (Smith et al., 2023), we found EEG slowing in ECT is better explained by a novel yet unexplored EEG signal: aperiodic act...
(rTMS). However, when these treatments don't lead to improvement or when a depression becomes very severe leading to hospitalization, ECT is often considered as the next step, as it is highly effective at rapidly reducing symptoms of depression and suicidal thinking. Learn more about ECT on ...