Article: Seizing upon ECT's opportunities: despite its reputation, ECT is still being used today--and the science behind it is stimulating similar techniques.

Article: The real shock is that ECT works
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... misgivings, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains the most effective treatment for ... starting, he said. It took me back to the ECT room in a Louisiana hospital, eight years ... seen Requiem for a Dream. I knew that ECT was wrong, and thought public outrage in ...

Article: Panel okays ECT, calls for U.S. survey. (electoconvulsive ...
Science News;  June 22, 1985 ;     700+ words ... ... Patients with severe depression generally receive ECT three times a week for two to four weeks. It ... recommends "much additional research' into how ECT works. Some researchers suggest that the key to ECT's effects lies in the biological process that ...

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).(Behavioral Health Advisor 2002.1)
Clinical Reference Systems;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... is suicidal) have had too many side effects. ECT is also sometimes used when people hear voices or have delusions. How does ECT work? No one knows exactly how ECT works. What is known is that the brain is made up of ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).(Behavioral Health Advisor 2006)
Clinical Reference Systems;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... is suicidal) * have had too many side effects. ECT is also sometimes used when people hear voices or have delusions. How does ECT work? No one knows exactly how ECT works. What is known is that the brain is made up of ...

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).
Clinical Reference Systems;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... voices or have delusions. People who are losing a lot of weight due to depression may be given ECT. How does ECT work? No one knows exactly how ECT works. What is known is that the brain is made up of cells that communicate with each other through ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).(Behavioral Health Advisor 2007)
Clinical Reference Systems;  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... is suicidal) * have had too many side effects. ECT is also sometimes used when people hear voices or have delusions. How does ECT work? No one knows exactly how ECT works. What is known is that the brain is made up of ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).(Behavioral Health Advisor)
Clinical Reference Systems;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... is suicidal) * have had too many side effects. ECT is also sometimes used when people hear voices or have delusions. How does ECT work? No one knows exactly how ECT works. What is known is that the brain is made up of ...