Electroconvulsive therapy
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electroconvulsive-therapy-172-12717068
title:
Electroconvulsive therapy
text:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment during which a generalized seizure is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. Typically, 70 to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head, resulting in approximately 800 milliamperes of direct current passing between the electrodes, for a duration of 100 milliseconds to 6 seconds, either from temple to temple or from front to back of one side of the head. However, only about 1
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Medical procedure in which electrical current is passed through the brain
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
date created:
2002-03-12T20:38:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:55:17Z
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