Department of Psychology, Institute of Mental Health, Tianjin Anding Hospital, Tianjin, China
Mini Review
Dose Electroconvulsive Therapy as the First Choice in Treatment for
Psychiatry Disorder?
Author(s): Xiaoyan Ma*, Ranli Li, Ying Wang, Feng Jia, Chaoran Ding and Shujie Chai
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is the oldest biology treatments in psychiatry. It has been still in use over 80
years. It is a safe well-tolerated, highly effective treatment option for mental disorder especially depression and
schizophrenia. Although the development of psychotropic drugs decreased the application of ECT. There are some
controversies about its efficacy, and some concerns on inconvenience, side effects, course of treatment, indication
and efficacy, which limit the extensive application of ECT. ECT was proved to be effective in mental disorder expect
for depression and schizophrenia from numerous studies. It’s embarrassing that ECT has been not suggested as
the first-line treatment. The mechanism of ECT is still unknown. Although there is no absolute indication for ECT,
there is no guideline on specific guidance on treatment parameters, cours.. View More»
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