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The Mode of Action of Electro-Convulsive Therapy

Journal of Mental Science, 1953
How electro-convulsive therapy (E.C.T.) acts, what is the chain of cause and effect from the electrical application to the clinical improvement, are questions whose answers are as uncertain as ever, in spite of the importance of such knowledge to psychiatry and in spite of the researches of nearly twenty years.
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Electro-Convulsive Therapy with Minimum Hazard

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
SummaryThe inter-electrode resistance during ECT is shown to be very variable, a finding which invalidates the measurement of shocks in joules. With square wave pulses of selected current value the threshold for convulsion may be below 100 milliamperes or above 2,000 milliamperes.
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[Equipment for electro-convulsive therapy].

Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology, 2006
ECT (electro-convulsive therapy) has been used for the treatment of depressive patients. First it was applied in patients only with sedatives without muscle relaxants, but now we employ muscle relaxants to avoid convulsion and its complications. It is called modified ECT (mECT).
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Electro-convulsive Therapy Apparatus