NICE report on ECT
Full report from the UK on the usage of ECT. 2003 Note that the use of ECT in schizophrenia, based on the evidence, is not recommended. Someone might want to send the clue train to New York state...
View ArticleA shocking treatment?
May 2003 The Psychologist Vol 16 No 5 A shocking treatment? Lucy Johnstone A psychologist recently suggested that commenting on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was outside our arena of professional...
View ArticleEfficacy of ECT in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
The Journal of ECT 2002; 18(2):90-94 Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy Combined with Antipsychotic Medication in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Wai Kwong Tang, M.D.; Gabor S. Ungvari, M.D.,...
View ArticleECT in India
ECT (ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY): NEED FOR DEBATE Center for Advocacy in Mental Health A research center of Bapu Trust, Pune, India INTRODUCTION The World Health Report, 2001 of the WHO is the most...
View ArticleECT cognitive effects: unpublished article reveals damning information
Update: The full article has been published in Nature and may be read here in PDF format. An unpublished article, send by an insider to ect.org, reveals what ECT activists have been saying for years:...
View ArticleShock Therapy Loses Some of Its Shock Value
September 19, 2006 New York Times By JANE E. BRODY For an older woman I know who was suffering from “implacable depression” that refused to yield to any medications, electroconvulsive therapy —...
View ArticleShock Treatment: Efficacy, Memory Loss and Brain Damage
Shock Treatment: Efficacy, Memory Loss, and Brain Damage – Psychiatry’s Don’t Look, Don’t Tell Policy by Richard A. Warner This downloadable paper was written by a paralegal in an ECT case that is...
View ArticleContinuation Electroconvulsive Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy for Relapse...
Archives of General Psychiatry Dec 2006 A Multisite Study From the Consortium for Research in Electroconvulsive Therapy (CORE) Charles H. Kellner, MD; Rebecca G. Knapp, PhD; Georgios Petrides, MD;...
View ArticleContinuation ECT as Good, or Poor, as Drug Therapy for Preventing Depression...
Dec 6 2006 Reuters Health Information NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Dec 06 – Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is comparable to pharmacologic treatment in preventing relapse of depression, but both...
View ArticlePanel Questions Magnet Therapy Results
By ANDREW BRIDGES The Associated Press Friday, January 26, 2007 WASHINGTON — A novel machine designed to treat depression by zapping the brain with magnetic pulses shows no clear evidence of working,...
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