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During electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, physicians pass electric currents into the brains of patients with severe psychiatric disorders such as major depression, causing the well-known side effect of convulsions. A researcher at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Dr. Mark Olfson, and a tea...
while the patient is under anesthesia, deliver enough electric current to induce a seizure. The therapy is more effective when electrodes are on both sides of the head, as opposed to just one, but unfortunately this also carries greater risk of side effects. ...
Today, the treatment – now called “electroconvulsive therapy” – still causes headaches and some short-term memory loss, but its success short-circuiting depression has sparked doctors to begin treating other brain illnesses with electricity. For...
The article presents an examination into the history of shock therapy in the clinical psychiatry practices of Denmark. Analysis is provided from the peer reviewed literature of the 1930s and 1940s in order to evaluate the efficacy and effects of various forms of shock therapy, particularly Cardia...
Yet despite this stigma, shock therapy – more properly known as 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 ...
This study examined how change the range of motion(ROM) of the neck and muscle tone of upper trapezius(UT) and Sternocleidomastoid(SCM) through the extracorporeal shock wave therapy(ESWT) and stretching exercise applied to subjects. Total 30 subjects who had forward head...
senior author Bradley Voytek, PhD, professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego. “However, in people for whom medications don’t work, electroconvulsive therapy can be life-saving. Understanding how it works will help us discover ways to increase the benefits while minimizing side effects.”...
Effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave therapy in the treatment of ... B Chung,P Wiley - 《Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise》 被引量: 123发表: 2003年 Side-effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) in the treatment of tennis elbow Apart from a few observational reports,...
"In our study, focused shock-wave therapy was effective, as well as safe, and performed without relevant side effects," he said. Although noting that the study was an interesting one, Paul Fortin, MD, questioned whether the treatment and placebo groups were truly blinded. "If the treatment ...