Sentences with phrase «called electroconvulsive therapy»
Several patients in the ward lay in narrow beds lined up before him, awaiting a treatment called electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
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It's officially called electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT — better known by its unofficial name, shock therapy.
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The Chinese government has banned the controversial application of electroconvulsive therapy for so - called Internet addiction after a clinic gained notoriety for applying electric shocks to unanesthetized teenagers being treated against their will (Science, 26 June, p. 1630).