Electric shock is another name for the longer "electroconvulsive therapy," in which a patient is given a small electric shock to deliberately cause a short seizure in the person's brain. It has been used as therapy since the early 1930s. According to Drs. Anjala Tess and Mark Aronson, professors of medicine at Harvard Medical School, the main use for the therapy today is for the treatment of major depression that has not responded to antidepressant medications. This less-traditional treatment is associated with multiple potential side effects.
According to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), electric shock treatment, or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is used to treat some patients who suffer from severe depression that manifests with either insomnia, ...
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is often depicted in films and popular culture as an extremely archaic and disruptive form of psychological therapy that does little for the patients except make them into vegetables. Movies lik...
