Although ketamine did generally help patients, ECT had better results overall. Ketamine could be a viable treatment for people who cannot undergo ECT. The side effect profiles of the two treatments differed, with ECT more likely to cause headaches, muscle pain and memory loss, while ketamine was...
Electroshock treatment/electrical-stimulating treatment. (Treatment of Depression) (Mental and Emotional Health)Kornfield, Donald SMuskin, Philip R
Treatment appears to reduce connections in a part of the brain involved in thought and socializing. (HealthDay) -- A small new study gives insight into how electroshock therapy, an effective yet poorly understood treatment for severe depression, affects the brains of depressed people. Ad Researche...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- It may conjure up frightful memories of scenes in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," but electroconvulsive therapy is actually a safe and cost-effective treatment for recurrent episodes of major depression, according to a new study. During electroconvulsive therapy, or EC...
shock treatment therapy- (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.); "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief" ...
in the treatment of depression.And of course, in those days, there were no antidepressant drugs,and it became very, very popular.They would anesthetize people,convulse them, but the real difficulty wasthat there was no way to paralyze muscles.So people would have a real grand mal seizure....
The approach to the patient in shock requires that treatment occur at the same time as the diagnosis occurs. The source of the underlying disease needs to be found. Sometimes it is obvious, for example, a trauma victim bleeding from a wound. Other times, the diagnosis is elusive. The type...
But the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, a state agency that has been appointed to represent her interests, appealed the case, arguing that less drastic treatment is available and, in any case, Ms. Austwick should not be forced to undergo a procedure that she has said she doesn't want....
Electroshock therapy is coming back into favor as a treatment for depression in the United States. In the last 25 years, the number of U.S. patients undergoing the treatment -- formally known as electroconvulsive therapy -- has tripled to about 100,000, Te Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observe...
Electroconvulsive therapy reduces deaths by suicide among older adults with depression in the months immediately following hospitalization, researchers report in the 10 September issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. As suicide risk is highest jus