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electroconvulsive treatment — electroconvulsive therapy or electroconvulsive treatment, = electroshock therapy. (Cf. ↑electroshock therapy) Abbr. ECT (no periods) … Useful english dictionary
Electroconvulsive therapy — Intervention ICD 10 PCS GZB ICD 9 CM 94.27 … Wikipedia
electroconvulsive therapy — n the treatment of mental disorder and esp. depression by the application of electric current to the head of a usu. anesthetized patient that induces unconsciousness and convulsive seizures in the brain abbr. ECT called also electric shock,… … Medical dictionary
Treatment-resistant depression — or refractory depression is a term used in clinical psychiatry to describe cases of major depressive disorder that do not respond to at adequate courses of least two antidepressants. [cite journal |author=Wijeratne, Chanaka, Sachdev, Perminder… … Wikipedia
electroconvulsive — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to or denoting the treatment of mental illness by applying electric shocks to the brain … English terms dictionary
History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, in the past sometimes called electric convulsion therapy or electroplexy) is a controversial psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with electricity.Carney S and Geddes J (2003) Editorial:… … Wikipedia
Treatment for depression — Depression, for the purposes of this article, refers to the mental disorder known as major depressive disorder. This kind of depression is a recognised clinical condition and is becoming a common condition in developed countries, where up to 20%… … Wikipedia
Treatment of bipolar disorder — This article is an expansion of a section entitled Treatment from within the main article: Bipolar disorder The emphasis of the treatment of bipolar disorder is on effective management of the long term course of the illness, which can involve… … Wikipedia
Treatment of schizophrenia — The concept of a cure as such in the treatment of schizophrenia remains controversial, as there is no consensus on the definition of treatment in the case of schizophrenia, although some criteria for the remission of symptoms have recently been… … Wikipedia
Electroconvulsive Therapy — (ECT) (from 1938) Although medicine had known applications of electricity for mental symptoms since the late eighteenth century, only in the mid 1930s did the accelerating interest in somatic therapies sparked by the success of insulin… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
