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| | Shock therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It was soon superseded by electroconvulsive therapy, because it was difficult to control and had many adverse effects. | | | Shock therapy was an attempt to produce these same changes artificially and under controlled conditions, so that psychic recovery might be induced. | | | Unfortunately, when shock therapies were most used, science had no effective tools to study this hypothesis. |
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| | Canadian Psychiatric Association - Position Papers |
| | Electroconvulsive therapy remains an important part of the therapeutic armamentarium in contemporary psychiatric practice. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy: the position of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. | | | Experimental studies of the mode of action of electroconvulsive therapy. |
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Vagus nerve stimulation therapy is another alternative to ECT. | | | There is current research in using Magnetic stimulation therapy (MST) as an alternative to ECT although presently it seems to be somewhat less effective. | | | ECT: sham statistics, the myth of convulsive therapy, and the case for consumer misinformation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy: Abstracts |
| | The response rate for low-dose unilateral electroconvulsive therapy was 17 percent, as compared with 43 percent for high-dose unilateral therapy (P = 0.054), 65 percent for low-dose bilateral therapy (P = 0.001), and 63 percent for high-dose bilateral therapy (P = 0.001). | | | A 57-year-old man with recurrent depression, resistant to drug therapy, was scheduled for a course of eight electroconvulsive therapy treatments. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy was found to be safe but not uniformly effective; only 42.4 per cent of patients obtained an immediate good outcome. |
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http://www.garynull.com/documents/ECT/Abstracts.htm
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| | electroconvulsive therapy on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Primer for Mental Health Counselors. | | | Magnetic Stimulation May Be as Effective as Electroconvulsive Therapy in Treating Severe Depression. | | | Advances in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have made it the standard mechanism of shock therapy. |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy During Pregnancy |
| | ECT persisted as a mainstay of therapy until the 1950s and 1960s, when effective antipsychotic, antidepressant, and antimanic drugs were discovered (Weiner 1994). | | | Pharmacologic therapies pose risks to the fetus in pregnant patients. | | | The practice of electroconvulsive therapy: recommendations for treatment, training, and privileging. |
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http://www.ect.org/resources/pregnancy.html
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| | RemedyFind: patient ratings of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression |
| | The electroconvulsive therapy procedure begins with the patient receiving a general anesthesia medication. | | | This review of 26 clinical studies found that over 80% of patients are satisfied with electroconvulsive therapy, and that at least one third of patients reported persistent memory loss. | | | ECT is a therapy which was first widely administered in the 1940’s. |
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http://www.remedyfind.com/rem.asp?ID=930&lPageNum=2
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| | Hospital & Community Services - Frequently asked questions about ECT |
| | Electroconvulsive therapy involves applying a brief electrical pulse to the scalp while the patient is under anesthesia. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy, commonly called ECT, was developed in 1938. | | | ECT also can not resolve other problems associated with personal relationships or how an individual copes with the stressors of life. |
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http://www.med.umich.edu/psych/ahosp/pated/ected.htm
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| | American Psychiatric Association |
| | Weiner RD, Coffey CE: Electroconvulsive therapy in the medical and neurological patient, in Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient. | | | Psychiatrists are very selective in their use of electroconvulsive therapy. | | | Produced by the Corresponding Committee on Electroconvulsive Therapy and Other Electromagnetic Therapies. |
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http://www.psych.org/research/apire/training_fund/clin_res/index.cfm
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | The early abuses of electroconvulsive therapy where patients were shocked up to 12 times a day in an effort to regressing the patient to "an infantile state·[to allow] restructuring his or her behavior" (5) undoubtedly left an appalling vision of this therapy in patients and their families. | | | Despite the many critics of this treatment, many medical institutions insist that this therapy is effective and safe. | | | The 1975 film based on this work undoubtedly left the public with an unfavorable view of electroshock therapy (3). |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web2/Hollander.html
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| | ANESTHESIA IN ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY |
| | During the therapy, the anesthetist used Ambu for the patients' oxygenation. | | | Therapy was stopped when clinical progression had been observed. | | | Weigner MB, Partridge BL, Hauger R, Mirow A. Prevention of the cardiovascular and neuroendocrine response to electroconvulsive therapy. |
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http://www.kfshrc.edu.sa/annals/192/98-100.html
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| | Pediatric ECT |
| | Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on personality and intellectual functioning of the schizophrenic child. | | | The child was treated by psychotherapy and family therapy for more than a year, after which she was discharged back to her family. | | | Guttmacher LB, Cretella H. Electroconvulsive therapy in one child and three adolescents. |
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http://www.mhsource.com/exclusive/pedect.html
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | Rethinking Electroconvulsive Therapy - Clinical Psychiatry News, 10/04 | | | Magnetic Stimulation May Be as Effective as Electroconvulsive Therapy for Severe Depression | | | Electroconvulsive Therapy Improves Mood, Quality Of Life in Patients With Major Depression |
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http://qualitycounts.com/drugs/ect.html
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| | Psychiatry's Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment (ECT): A Crime Against Humanity |
| | One way ECT achieves its effects is the victims of this supposed therapy change their behavior, display of emotion, and expressed ideas for the purpose of avoiding being tortured and destroyed by the "therapy". | | | This is true even though currently unhappiness or "depression" is the only "condition" for which ECT is a recognized "therapy". | | | During my own experience as a prisoner of psychiatry with my own eyes I witnessed a fellow "patient" being forcibly dragged off for electroconvulsive "therapy" as she pleaded with her tormentors to stop. |
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http://www.antipsychiatry.org/ect.htm
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy: Why is it Effective? A Challenge to the Modes of Action |
| | The extremely unpleasant sensations led investigators to seek alternative methods and electroconvulsive therapy was born. | | | What remains unknown is why electroconvulsive therapy is effective. | | | Richard Abrams has studied ECT for years and discusses a wide variety of reasons for its effectiveness in his revised edition of Electroconvulsive Therapy. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02/web3/cbarnes.html
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| | Shock and Disbelief |
| | This is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)—the psychiatric use of an electric current to stimulate a grand mal seizure—as seen through the eyes of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a lobbying group founded by the Church of Scientology and the most active and well-organized anti-ECT group in existence. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy was once psychiatry's most terrifying tool—blunt, painful, and widely abused. | | | It is a grim view, invoking coercion, barbarity, anguish—everything negative that has ever been associated with psychiatry. |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/02/smith.htm
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| | A FEW THOUGHTS ON ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY |
| | Pavilion administrators deny that shock therapy is a high-profit procedure. | | | Shock therapy scrutinized in wake of woman’s death | | | "They are satisfied that we responded to their concerns and are now in compliance with Medicare regulations." Some say therapy safe The health care industry’s formal name for shock treatment is electro-convulsive therapy, or ECT. |
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http://www.idiom.com/~drjohn/ect.html
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| | Treatment, ECT, electro convulsive therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, shock therapy, Depression, Alternative ... |
| | Treatment, ECT, electro convulsive therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, shock therapy, Depression, Alternative therapies, mind-body medicine, integrative therapies | | | Electro Convulsive therapy (ECT or shock therapy) involves the application of an electric shock of about 80 volts passed through electrodes placed on the head. | | | Despite a bad reputation, ECT is a safe and effective therapy for depression. |
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http://www.holisticonline.com/Remedies/Depression/dep_treatment_ECT.htm
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| | 75(R) HB 570 Introduced version - Bill Text |
| | This chapter applies 1-8 to the use of electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, pre-frontal 1-9 sonic sound treatment, or any other convulsive or coma-inducing 1-10 therapy by any person, including a private physician who uses the 1-11 therapy on an outpatient basis. | | | By Thompson H.B. No. 570 75R1504 SKB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to convulsive or coma-inducing therapies and the 1-3 prohibition of electroconvulsive therapy; providing a penalty. | | | (b) Unless the person consents to the use of the therapy in |
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) (No. 59) |
| | Guidance on the use of electroconvulsive therapy - summary information | | | Guidance on the use of electroconvulsive therapy - full guidance | | | The use of electroconvulsive therapy, Understanding NICE guidance - information for service users, their advocates and carers, and the public |
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| | Amazon.com: Electroconvulsive Therapy: Books: Richard Abrams |
| | In this lucid and comprehensive work, Dr. Abrams traces the historical development of convulsive therapy and explores its physiological, ethical, biochemical, political, neuroanatomical, and clinical aspects. | | | Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Programmed Text by John L. Beyer | | | Abrams' book is apparently the definitive textbook for physicians/ psychiatrists/ psychologists looking to learn the techniques and trappings. |
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| | The Straight Dope: What happens in electroshock therapy? |
| | Shock treatment and lobotomy went into decline when antischizophrenic drugs were introduced in the 1950s, and drugs remain the preferred therapy today. | | | (Broken bones were more common in metrazol therapy, causing many doctors to favor ECT.) In later years doctors began using anesthetics to knock the patient out plus a muscle relaxant to eliminate injuries. | | | The Straight Dope: What happens in electroshock therapy? |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
| | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure in which a brief application of electric stimulus is used to produce a generalized seizure. | | | Research should continue, and techniques should be refined to maximize the efficacy and minimize the risks and side effects resulting from ECT. | | | Unfortunately, concerns have been raised concerning inappropriate and even dangerous treatment of elderly patients with heart conditions, and the administration of ECT without proper patient consent. |
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| | ECT, Electroconvulsive Shock Treatment, Brain Damage - Psychiatry's Legacy |
| | Remember, the "therapy" known as ECT was discovered observing a slaughterhouse! | | | All are euphemistic terms for the same process: sending a searing blast of electricity through the brain in order to alter behavior. | | | With the "successful" electrically induced convulsion of his victim, Ugo Cerletti brought about the application of hog-slaughtering skills to humans, creating one of the most brutal techniques of psychiatry. |
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| | The Infinite Mind: ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) |
| | A researcher into the uses and effects of ECT, Dr. Lisanby explains how electroconvulsive therapy stimulates the “acute release of neurotransmitters” like dopamine in the brain and notes that the treatments can actually promote the growth of neurons or nerve cells. | | | Along the way, writer Sylvia Plath – read by actress Marsha Mason – recounts an experience of shock therapy in her novel, "The Bell Jar," Dr. Sarah Lisanby explains how the therapy works, and Marjorie, a middle-aged woman crippled by a depression, gets her first shock treatment in 30 years. | | | In the course of this program, producer Devorah Klahr follows Marjorie through her course of therapy with Dr. Samuel Bailine at the The Zucker Hillside Hospital on Long Island. |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | This leaflet, aimed at a lay audience, provides information about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a psychiatric treatment in which a brief electrical stimulus is given to the brain via electrodes placed on the temples. | | | This technology appraisal contains a series of documents on guidance to the NHS on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and is produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). | | | Technology appraisals produced by NICE have been developed by a team of experts aiming to produce guidance for both the NHS and patients on medicines, medical equipment and clinical procedures based on evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness. |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | With the arrival of pharmacoconvulsive therapy in Italy in the mid-1930s, the neuropsychiatrist and epileptologist Ugo Cerletti was struck both by its efficacy and by the technical difficulties involved in generating a seizure. | | | By using an electrical stimulus to produce the seizure, a technique that he and others had developed as an experimental model of grand mal epilepsy, Cerletti and his colleague, Lucio Bini, developed this new “electroconvulsive” therapy, which offered a more controlled and reliable means of seizure induction (Endler 1988). | | | • Mood disorders - pro • • Electroconvulsive Therapy • |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
| | Prior to ECT treatment, a patient is put to sleep using general anesthesia and a muscle relaxant is given. | | | There is also a misconception that ECT is used as a "quick fix" instead of long-term therapy or hospitalization. | | | ECT is one of the fastest ways to relieve symptoms in severely depressed or suicidal patients, or patients who suffer from mania or other mental illnesses. |
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | Depression: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) University of Pennsylvania Health System | | | Depression: Electroconvulsive Therapy American Academy of Family Physicians | | | All medical information needs to be carefully reviewed with your health care provider. |
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy |
| | If your psychiatrist suggests that a course of ECT therapy may be helpful, you have certain rights under Victorian law. | | | A full explanation of the procedure and associated benefits and risks | | | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treats a range of mental illnesses by inducing a controlled seizure in the patient. |
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http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Electroconvulsive_therapy?open
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia (Cochrane Review) |
| | Objectives: To determine whether electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) results in clinically meaningful benefit with regard to global improvement, hospitalisation, changes in mental state, behaviour and functioning for people with schizophrenia, and to determine whether variations in the practical administration of ECT influences outcome. | | | Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) involves the induction of a seizure for therapeutic purposes by the administration of a variable frequency electrical stimulus shock via electrodes applied to the scalp. | | | The effects of its use in people with schizophrenia are unclear. |
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| | Alzforum: Electroconvulsive Therapy |
| | ALL medications and supplements should be taken ONLY under the supervision of a physician, due to the possibility of side-effects, drug interactions, etc. | | | Special concerns for the use of ECT include legal consent, workup, technique (unilaterality of electrode placement, schedule of sessions, etc.), and continued care. | | | As agitation can be caused by delirium and other acute-onset medical problems (irremediable and possibly exacerbated by ECT), this mode of therapy should only be used with extreme caution, by able and experienced specialists. |
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
| | Unlike medications and therapy, ECT tends to have an immediately positive effect on mood, which is why it can be so helpful for those at risk of suicide. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most misunderstood treatments for depression. | | | While it is generally used only in severe or life-threatening cases where medication and therapy haven't worked, ECT can be effective. |
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| | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) |
| | ECT is usually given in combination with medication, psychotherapy, family therapy, and behavioral therapy. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a procedure used to treat severe depression. | | | It may be used in people with symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, or suicidal thoughts or when other treatments such as psychotherapy and antidepressant medications have not worked. |
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| | ect.org: Information about: electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, shock, informed consent, electroshock therapy, shock ... |
| | The choice to have electroshock is a personal one that should be yours, and should be based on a variety of sources and points of view about ECT. | | | I hope that ect.org will provide you with enough information and support so that you may make a more informed decision about having electroconvulsive therapy. | | | ect.org: Information about: electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, shock, informed consent, electroshock therapy, shock therapy, shock treatment, est, depression treatment, electroshock, electric shock therapy, electro shock therapy, electric shock treatment |
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| | What is electroconvulsive therapy? |
| | This article is intended to give a factual account of ect, electroconvulsive therapy, and its use. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy is the most controversial treatment in psychiatry. | | | You may be surprised to learn that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still being practiced in most, if not all, psychiatric units in general hospitals and mental institutions. |
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http://ky.essortment.com/whatiselectroc_riek.htm
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| | Electroconvulsive Therapy Review Guidelines |
| | A decision to use ECT as the primary therapy should be based on an evaluation of the nature and the severity of acute symptoms in conjunction with an evaluation of risks and benefits. | | | Since these guidelines are not intended to be all inclusive, the APA’s Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy should be referred to when a specific subject or topic is under review or in question. | | | ECT may be considered as a primary treatment (or first-line treatment) for persons exhibiting syndromes such as: severe major depression, acute mania, mood disorders with psychotic features, and catatonia. |
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http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/ect/guidelines.htm
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Electroconvulsive therapy |
| | This electrical stimulation, used in conjunction with anesthesia and muscle relaxant medications, produces a mild generalized seizure or convulsion. | | | Electroconvulsive therapy is among the most controversial of all procedures used to treat mental illness. | | | The purpose of electroconvulsive therapy is to provide relief from the signs and symptoms of mental illnesses such as severe depression, mania, and schizophrenia. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0004/ai_2601000467
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Electroconvulsive Therapy: Books |
| | This is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the definitive text on electroconvulsive therapy. | | | This essential resource remains the primary reference and guide for those who prescribe, perform, or assist with ECT. | | | This is a revised and updated edition of the text on electroconvulsive therapy. |
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