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Chinese national practice guidelines recommend ECT for the treatment of schizophrenia, depressive disorders, and bipolar disorder and in the Chinese literature, ECT is an effective treatment for schizophrenia and mood disorders.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in which a seizure is induced in the brain, often as an intervention for major depressive disorder, mania, and catatonia. ECT remains a safe and effective treatment in some circumstances in modern psychiatry.
With the addition of multiple antidepressants and antipsychotics to treat mental disorders, ECT is not widely implemented in the U.S. today, despite the research that suggests it is an effective treatment for severe depression and other mental illnesses. The negative stigma surrounding ECT, thanks to its crude beginnings in psychology along ...
The treatment has been refined and well studied in the last few decades and it’s now considered a safe and effective treatment for some illnesses. Electroshock therapy is actually still in use ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). ETC, or shock therapy, is considered effective for the most treatment-resistant symptoms of bipolar, like life-threatening mania and psychosis.
The history of mental illness — and its treatment — is not for the faint of heart. From ice-water plunges to the early days of electroshock therapy, from lobotomies (honored with a Nobel Prize ...
Yang Yongxin (Chinese: 杨永信; born 21 June 1962) is a Chinese psychiatrist who advocated and practiced a highly controversial [3] form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for video game and Internet addiction in adolescents.
This marks the first successful legal challenge by a transgender person in China against conversion therapy Transgender woman wins record compensation for ‘electric shock treatment’ Skip to ...