Sentences with phrase «receiving electroconvulsive therapy»

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

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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.
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