Sentences with word «electroconvulsive»

«Audit uncovers concerns about the use of electroconvulsive therapy in England.»

Common use of electroconvulsive therapy for Chinese adolescent psychiatric patients Zhang QE, Wang ZM, Sha S, Ng CH, Seiner SJ, Welch CA, Lok GK, Chow IH, Wang F, Li L, Xiang YT.

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University, in collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute, have opened up the possibilities for rapid drug screens to treat seizures in the near future by developing the smallest whole - animal electroconvulsive seizure model using a microscopic nematode worm.

Some patients had undergone electroconvulsive therapy for difficult - to - treat depression.

One of the most remarkable papers I have read in the psychiatric literature was about a 57 year old woman who was treated with months of both antipsychotic and antidepressant medications and given two rounds of electroconvulsive treatment before anyone bothered to check her vitamin B12 level.

After the media coverage of this unknown patient's work peaked, family members recognized the imagery as that of Edward Deeds, who had been institutionalized for life and documented as receiving electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT.

Several patients in the ward lay in narrow beds lined up before him, awaiting a treatment called electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

«How electroconvulsive therapy relieves depression per animal experiments.»

The treatment, known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), works, but it can cause memory loss and confusion and lead to difficulty forming new memories.

«To date, the most effective treatment for depression remains electroconvulsive therapy, but it comes along with a lot of side - effects,» Dzirasa said.

Changing brain chemistry Unlike with electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy, where patients must be unconscious and administered muscle relaxants in order to prevent seizures, patients receiving rTMS (which involves trains of pulses during each session, hence the «repetitive» modifier) remain conscious and seated in outpatient settings.

Brain stimulation treatments, like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are often effective for the treatment of depression.

As more and more Americans demand electroconvulsive therapy to treat their severe depression, researchers try to find out why ECT works and critics warn of its long - term side effects

for about 10 percent of them, nothing in psychiatry's standard arsenal offers relief, not the extensive repertoire of drugs, not cognitive therapy, not even electroconvulsive treatments (what used to be called shock therapy).

Precisely timed electroconvulsive therapy, a last - ditch treatment for severe depression, interferes with a person's ability to remember a recently learned story, scientists report December 22 in Nature Neuroscience.

These include electroconvulsive therapy or ECT, deep - brain stimulation or DBS, and transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS.

Regulation of BDNF and trkB mRNA in rat brain by chronic electroconvulsive seizure and antidepressant drug treatments.

When bizarre events begin to occur, Zach slowly remembers a forgotten time in his childhood when he suffered from severe and violent psychosis - memories erased by a series of electroconvulsive shock treatments administered by his psychiatrist.

Cotard's syndrome is, thankfully, transient in most people, even though the treatment at times might involve electroconvulsive therapy.

Months after undergoing Electroconvulsive Therapy, former CIA case officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) has found a modicum of peace in her family's suburban embrace.

«We were very excited to discover that when we used a typical genetic mutation that was more susceptible to electroconvulsive seizures, we were able to actually rescue these worms by treating them with FDA approved human antiepileptic drugs beforehand,» said Monica Risley, co-lead author and a Ph.D. student in FAU's Integrative Biology and Neuroscience program, as well as a student in the new International Max Planck Research School in Brain and Behavior.

van Waarde JA, Scholte HS, van Oudheusden LJB, Verwey B, Denys D, van Wingen GA, A functional MRI marker may predict the outcome of electroconvulsive therapy in severe and treatment - resistant depression.

The young doctor was hospitalised for six weeks and received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), only seeing her children when she was allowed out on leave.

It's officially called electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT — better known by its unofficial name, shock therapy.

In a study using genetically engineered mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered some new molecular details that appear to explain how electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) rapidly relieves severe depression in mammals, presumably including people.

Doctors in Italy first used electroconvulsive therapy in 1938 to treat schizophrenia; in the decades that followed, the treatment spread to other countries and other disorders, especially depression.

Interestingly, antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy relieve the symptoms of animals distressed by such separations.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a radical but effective treatment for most cases of severe depression.

In rare cases, electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat severe forms of depression.

p11 is increased in rodent brains by antidepressants or electroconvulsive therapy, but decreased in an animal model of depression and in brain tissue from depressed patients.

Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock or ECT, is a type of psychiatric shock therapy involving the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain.

Nearly 90 years old, electroconvulsive therapy can rescue some people, but not others, from depression, bipolar and other mental disorders

The treatment joins talk, pharmaceutical and electroconvulsive therapies (the latter of which rTMS is an offshoot) as the only known methods of alleviating the debilitating symptoms of depression.

Charney, now dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, thinks ketamine could serve as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, the current treatment of last resort.

These include ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy, neuromodulation with magnetic stimulation, psychotherapy, and exercise.

Using electricity to affect the brain makes tms sound similar to electroconvulsive therapy, alias electroshock therapy.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is casting off its past image to become the treatment of choice for many severely depressed Americans.

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).

Electroconvulsive therapy remains one of the most effective treatments for severe depression, but new UNSW research shows ultra-brief pulse stimulation is almost as effective as standard ECT, with far fewer cognitive side effects.

The researchers have been able to demonstrate, that just like rodents and even fruit flies, the tiny 1 millimeter C.elegans worm also can undergo an electroconvulsive seizure.

Chris Callaghan wonders whether it is the anaesthetic used in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) that is responsible for any beneficial effects...

Other less mainstream treatments for mental health problems, include stimulating the brain with magnetic pulses, electroconvulsive therapy, deep brain electrode stimulation, staying at a Hindu temple and using virtual reality to treat schizophrenia and phobias.

«Electroconvulsive therapy changes key areas of the human brain that play a role in memory, emotion.»

Now a team of UCLA researchers has shown for the first time in a large cohort of patients that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), sometimes referred to as shock treatment, change certain areas of the brain that play a role in how people feel, learn and respond to positive and negative environmental factors.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) continues to be used in England without comprehensive national auditing.

McLean Hospital is a leading specialty center for electroconvulsive therapy, having conducted ECT treatments for over 60 years.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective conventional intervention for chronic depression, mania, catatonia and schizophrenia.