2020年6月3日 · The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says.

ECT sends up to 460 volts of electricity through the brain in order to induce a grand mal seizure. With an estimated 100,000 Americans a year given ECT, for a total of about $260 worth of …

2024年3月25日 · These devices -- called electrical stimulation devices or ESDs -- now are in use at just one U.S. facility, the Judge Rotenberg Education Center in Canton, Mass., the FDA …

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a controversial [1][2][3][4] psychiatric treatment during which a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is …

Today’s final order to regulate electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices in a way that appropriately reflects the known benefits and risks for specific indications for use provides patients with...

It is recognised that ECT raises anxiety and fearfulness in the community, however much of the opposition to ECT is based on fear and irrational thinking, not science.

2023年11月17日 · ECT has been banned altogether in some countries, including Slovenia and Luxembourg. But in most countries where it is still used (the vast majority), its use on children …

2020年6月3日 · The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says. ECT involves passing electric currents through a …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed the electroshock therapy (ECT) device to remain on the market without requiring clinical studies proving safety and efficacy, and is …

有些精神科醫生把電痙攣療法（英文簡寫為ECT）當成醫療程序。 使用最多高達460伏特的電流穿過腦部。 為什麼？ 這是為了引起癲癇大發作，精神科醫生宣稱這將「重新設定」或「重新啟 …