Electroconvulsive therapy--a current view.

BF Hoffman - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the oldest surviving biologic treatment in clinical
psychiatry. In 1940 Cerletti and Bini first reported the therapeutic use of ECT, in a patient …

Introduction to electroconvulsive therapy

AP Zis - Principles of Medical Biology, 2000 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). ECT was
originally introduced to treat schizophrenia. ECT is primarily used in the treatment of …

Electroconvulsive therapy—a current perspective

RR Crowe - New England Journal of Medicine, 1984 - Mass Medical Soc
ELECTROCONVULSIVE therapy has become a national issue. Attacks on it have appeared
in movies and television documentaries, as well as in the popular and professional press. 1 …

The present use of electroconvulsive therapy

RD Weiner, MD, AD Krystal, MD - Annual Review of Medicine, 1994 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Physicians attempting to treat certain severe mental disorders have recently
shown renewed interest in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). A number of technical …

Electroconvulsive therapy in the 1980s.

LF Major - The Psychiatric clinics of North America, 1984 - europepmc.org
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Electroconvulsive therapy: a review

TD Hurwitz - Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1974 - Elsevier
Due to its ease of administration and the widespread familiarity with electroconvulsive
therapy (ECT), most psychiatrists become facile in its use without the usual background …

Electroconvulsive therapy: an overview.

JG Solomon - Virginia medical, 1979 - europepmc.org
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Electroconvulsive therapy: a consensus on contemporary issues.

R Chandrasena - Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa …, 1989 - europepmc.org
Electroconvulsive therapy remains a clinically useful, efficacious and safe treatment. All
scientific studies, task force reports and legal evaluations attest to this. Nevertheless its use …

[CITATION][C] Electroconvulsive Therapy.

S Finch - Mental Health Practice, 2004 - go.gale.com
ECT is a subject some nurses would prefer not to read about. So finding a book whose
content is sufficiently stimulating, to counterbalance the bias, would be a particularly difficult …

[CITATION][C] Electroconvulsive therapy: An effective treatment

L Ahern - AORN journal, 1981 - Elsevier
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe, effective, but often misunderstood somatic
treatment for mental disorders. In the past, this type of electric shock therapy conjured up …