When depression fails to respond to treatment or when there is a high risk of suicide, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) sometimes is used.
A measured dose of electricity is introduced into the brain in order to produce a convulsion.
Max Fink has written: 'Electroconvulsive therapy' -- subject(s): Electroconvulsive therapy, Mental Disorders, Therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy is among the most controversial of all procedures used to treat mental illness
Yes
Electroconvulsive therapy-- This type of therapy is used to treat major depression and severe mental illness that does not respond to medications.
Janet Frame
"shock treatment."
I got it at St. Joseph's Hospital in Towson, Maryland.
Two Italian doctors named Cerletti and Bini
yes it is.
ECT in medical terms means electroconvulsive therapy.