Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment during which a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions)...
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convulsive therapies (cardiazol/metrazol therapy and electroconvulsive therapy), deep sleep therapy, and psychosurgery. Insulin coma therapy and the convulsive...
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self-neglect or a significant risk of harm to self or others. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be considered if other measures are not effective. Major...
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was associated with reduced intensity of depression symptoms. Electroconvulsive therapy is generally only considered as a treatment option in severe cases...
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atypical antipsychotic or tricyclic antidepressant monotherapy or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as the first-line treatment for unipolar psychotic depression...
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This is a list of people treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Linda Andre, American author, activist, director of the Committee for Truth in...
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Anti-psychiatry (section Electroconvulsive therapy)
after focus on the extreme harms associated with electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy. The term "anti-psychiatry" is in dispute and often...
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researchers have cautioned against their long term use in treatment. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be considered for patients with schizoaffective disorder...
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Management of depression (redirect from Depression and complementary therapies)
Association, et al. (Committee on Electroconvulsive Therapy) (2001). Weiner RD (ed.). The practice of electroconvulsive therapy: recommendations for treatment...
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disorders include medication, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, and electroconvulsive therapy. Medication is the cornerstone of treatment for both bipolar disorder...
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial therapy used to treat certain mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, depressed...
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Peter Breggin (section Electroconvulsive therapy)
his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human...
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electroconvulsive therapy, antipsychotics and historical procedures like the lobotomy: 28 and other forms of psychosurgery or insulin shock therapy,...
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of aversive conditioning. Two types of shock therapy are currently practiced: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in which a seizure is induced in the brain...
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benzodiazepines, lithium, and antipsychotics, as well as procedures such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). In some cases where pregnant women have a known history...
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created a special therapy, xingnao ("brain-waking") therapy, to treat Internet addiction. As part of the therapy, electroconvulsive therapy is implemented...
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of "psychic driving", as well as drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, sensory deprivation and Thorazine. The experiments were conducted...
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, in the past sometimes called electric convulsion therapy, convulsion treatment or electroplexy) is a controversial psychiatric...
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Yang Yongxin (section Safety of therapy)
psychiatrist who advocated and practiced a highly controversial form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for video...
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Massachusetts. In 2006, her book Shock revealed that she had undergone electroconvulsive therapy treatment beginning in 2001 in order to treat major depression...
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for catatonia, which is loss of or hyperactive motor activity. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have been used to treat cases of catatonia and related conditions...
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in treating symptoms of melancholic depression after 12 weeks. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was previously believed to be an effective treatment for...
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Exercise has also been shown to have antidepressant effects. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may have some effectiveness in mixed mania states, and good...
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who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used...
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nurses are also involved in the administration of the treatment of electroconvulsive therapy and assist with the preparation and recovery from the treatment...
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Auditory hallucination (section Therapy)
methods to help are electroconvulsive therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT has been shown...
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using different forms of electrical induction. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), used as a depression therapy, can cause impairments in memory. Tests show...
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treated in the previous five years with intensive courses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). These children received ECT daily for a typical course...
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psychiatrist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a type of shock therapy for mental diseases. Kalinowsky, LB: Lucio Bini (September...
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and measures to prevent the development of pressure ulcers. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for catatonia that is well acknowledged...
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