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After this a muscle relaxant is given to the patient. Oxygen is administered and an electric current is applied through electrodes. The patient undergoing the ECT does not feel the electric current, and the only reaction noticeable is the patients toes curling (Mental Illness Assessment and Treatment p...
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The placing of electrodes is still a matter of ongoing research. In unilateral treatment the electrodes are placed two or three inches apart on the same side of the head. The side that is chosen is the same side as the dominant hand. This method is said to reduce short term memory loss and confusion, another method of ECT is placing the electrodes over both temples...
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Shocks Electroshock therapy what is it? How does it work? What is it used for and what comes from it? This paper will answer all of these questions and will also try to prove that electroshock therapy is useful and not as bad as it appears to be...	4 / 856
etc is it safe? Is Electroconvulsive Therapy formally known as electroshock therapy, a safe and effective way to alleviate symptoms of mental illness? "After 60 years of use, ECT is still the most controversial psychiatric treatment available"...	1 / 259
Electroconvulsive Therapy of depression. Before ECT is administered the doctor will first do a physical examination on the patient to make sure they are physically able to have the treatment...	2 / 516
ECT The aim of ECT is to induce a bilateral grand mal seizure which lasts at up to 60 seconds. A grand mal seizure is when the brain's neurons are forced to speed up to their maximal rate, which is often four to six times that of the normal...	2 / 559
Using Electroconvulsive Therapy For purposes of this writing the subject’s have three distinctive similarities: The first of the issues deals with exposing their genitalia in a reckless manner...	3 / 762
Ect1 Invented by Cerletti and Bini, in 1938, ECT was the first form of therapy that reliably reduced severe depression (Abrams and Essman, 1982). Electroconvulsive therapy is a technique for treating psychiatric patients, in which seizures similar to those of epilepsy are induced by passing a current of electricity through the forehead (Encarta, 1995)...	4 / 957
Electroshock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy was finally introduced in 1938 by two Italian scientists, Cereletti and Bini. In this procedure the patient lay on a padded couch with electrodes attached to his head and an electric current of 70 to 130 volts was administered for a fraction of a second...	4 / 901