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Electroconvulsive therapy explained in plain language — what the research shows about how well it works, what it does to memory, and how it compares with other options.
Electroconvulsive therapy and Parkinson's disease: what the studies show
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a well-established treatment for psychiatric disorders, including depression and psychosis. It is deliver…
Magnetic Seizure Therapy Compared With ECT for Depression: A Large Trial
Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is a newer convulsive treatment for depression, and earlier work suggested it has fewer cognitive side effect…
Electrode Placement in ECT for Bipolar Disorder: A Review
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment delivered by psychiatrists, and it is not part of psychological practice. This articl…
Memory worries after ECT: what patients feel and what tests show
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment for severe depression, given by psychiatrists and medical teams. One of the most comm…
ECT in Young Adults: Feeling Foggy While Testing Better
Electroconvulsive therapy is delivered by psychiatrists in hospital, not by psychologists, and Gecko House does not provide it. People ask a…
Does ECT Affect Thinking and Memory? A New Look at the Evidence
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is one of the most effective treatments available for severe depression, but many people considering it w…
Brain Scans Reveal How ECT Helps Some Patients With Depression
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is delivered by psychiatrists, not psychologists. It is a well-established treatment for major depressive di…
What the Evidence Says About ECT for Severe Depression
When standard treatments for major depression, medication and therapy, do not bring enough relief, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is someti…
ECT for Depression: Comparing Results in Teenagers and Adults
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a hospital treatment for severe depression. A brief electrical current is used to bring on a short, co…
Magnetic Seizure Therapy: A Gentler Option Than ECT?
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains one of the most effective treatments for severe depression, but it can cause memory and concentratio…
Ketamine or ECT for Depression: A Closer Look
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is one of the treatments used for severe depression when other approaches haven't helped. It involves a c…
ECT and Consent When Someone Cannot Decide
This is the part of ECT people find most uncomfortable, and it deserves a straight answer rather than avoidance. Some people become so unwe…
Ketamine or ECT: What Tips the Balance
A large trial found ketamine was not inferior to ECT for treatment-resistant depression. That leaves a practical question for anyone facing …
The Anaesthetic Is a Bigger Part of ECT Than You'd Think
When people picture ECT, they think about the electricity. The anaesthetic barely features. Yet the anaesthetic turns out to be one of the t…
What Actually Happens During ECT
Popular depictions of ECT owe more to film than to fact. A recent review in Harvard Review of Psychiatry, by Kritzer and colleagues, sets ou…
Why ECT Has Such a Bad Reputation Online
If you search for ECT, what you find will probably frighten you. Researchers set out to measure exactly that, analysing tweets in English an…
Can Doctors Predict Who ECT Will Help? Not Yet
Depression in later life can be particularly stubborn, and ECT is often effective for it. A reasonable question follows: can anyone tell in …
What Happens After ECT Works? Denmark Followed 20,000 People
ECT is usually described as a course of treatment with an end point. But depression has a habit of returning, which raises an obvious questi…
Ketamine or ECT? A Large Trial Compared Them Directly
For a long time, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was the main option once depression had not responded to medication. Ketamine has since ent…
Does ECT Affect Memory Long-Term? It Depends How You Measure
Memory is the concern most often raised by people considering ECT for depression, and it is a reasonable one to weigh carefully. A 2024 revi…
Where the Electrodes Go Changes What ECT Costs You
If you have ever read about ECT, you have probably seen the word "electrodes" and not much explanation of what that means in practice. It tu…