BACKGROUND In principle, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can only be administered to patients who consent to the treatment. If the patient does not consent, the treatment can be given in exceptional cases, in situations where a plea of necessity can be made. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the issue of consent was documented in the patient records at Dikemark Hospital in th...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective therapy for several psychiatric disorders, including severe major depression, mania and certain forms of schizophrenia. It had been proposed that ECT acts by modulating local plasticity via the stimulation of neurogenesis. In fact, among antidepressant therapies, ECT is the most robust enhancer of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of rodents and non...

Ketamine has repeatedly shown to have rapid and robust antidepressant effects in patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD). An important question is whether ketamine as effective safe the current gold standard electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The literature was searched for trials comparing ECT Pubmed/MEDLINE database Cochrane Trials Library. A total of 137 manuscripts were identified,...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is important in the management of severe, treatment-resistant, and life-threatening psychiatric illness. Anesthesia supports clinical efficacy tolerability ECT. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted ECT services, including anesthesia. This study documents strategies for managing anesthesia during pandemic. Data were collected between March November 20...

Physicians who use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) need to be vigilant for unstable medical conditions before and during the course of treatment. This brief review is intended to highlight some basic principles and specific concerns that may be encountered in the use of ECT in patients who have comorbid medical illness. For more extensive discussions, I refer the reader to recent reviews of ECT...

Electroconvulsive therapy has become controversial in recent times and its use is becoming restricted especially in western countries. Post ECT memory deficiency is one of the important scientific reasons for the non-acceptance of ECT. However political, emotional, medicolegal factors and mass media have played a more important role in the decline of ECT than the scientific evidence. But in Ind...

Physicians who use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) need to be vigilant for unstable medical conditions before and during the course of treatment. This brief review is intended to highlight some basic principles and specific concerns that may be encountered in the use of ECT in patients who have comorbid medical illness. For more extensive discussions, I refer the reader to recent reviews of ECT...

The history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States is traced from its crude beginnings in 1940 to its emergence as a highly sophisticated and effective treatment for many severe psychiatric disorders. The general distrust of all somatic therapies in the 1930s and 1940s expressed by many prominent psychiatrists (both analysts and nonanalysts) contributed to an ambivalent relatio...

background: it is estimated that major depression disorders constitute 8.2% of years lived with disability (ylds) globally. the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) and electroconvulsive therapy (ect) are two relative common interventions to treat major depressive disorders, especially for treatment resistant depression. in this study the cost- effectiveness and cost-utility of r...

Biomathematical methods were applied to investigate how cortical neurodynamics depends on network connectivity. In particular, we study changes in the EEG pattern of depressed patients, following electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The aim is to gain a better understanding of the neural mechanisms responsible for these changes, which include clear phase shifts in the EEG dynamics. This understandi...