ECT

Max Fink - Retirement
... treatments in patients with major depression after successful ECT ... group under the acronym "CORE" -- Consortium on Research in ECT—has published on the merits of continuation ECT and continuation medication to sustain remission ... Fink has funded a book on the history of ECT by Edward Shorter and David Healy ...

Management Of Depression - Treatment Using Medical Devices or Equipment - Electroconvulsive Therapy
... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment where seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect ... ECT is most often used as a "last resort" (from the perspective of hospital psychiatrists) for severe major depression which has not responded to trials of antidepressant or, less often, psychotherapy or supportive ... However, the first systematic documentation of the effectiveness of ECT in community practice in the 65 years of its use found much lower remission ...

Harold A. Sackeim
... and proponent of electroconvulsive therapy, (ECT) ... is co-author of more than 200 publications relating to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and has researched it extensively, finding that excessive shock current correlates with risk ... the results of a study which followed 250 ECT patients in New York City hospitals ...

Catalan Workers' Left
... ECT was formed in 1972, with its base in Perpignan ... ECT was linked to the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN) ... Liberation - provisional (PSAN-p), broke away from ECT and formed the Socialist Organisation of National Liberation (OSAN) ...