Antidepressants aid electroconvulsive therapy in treating severe depression

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Combining antidepressant drugs with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) does a better job of reducing symptoms of severe depression and causes less memory loss than using ECT alone, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps patients with severe depression who don't respond to other treatments, and should be considered more often in the earlier stages of the illness, according to an article of the Southern Medical Journal. "Electroconvulsive therapy has been shown to be a ...

Study Shows NeuroStar TMS Therapy(R) Improved Key Elements of Cognition in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder

... Unlike electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), NeuroStar TMS Therapy Is Not Associated With Memory Loss ... depression treatments, such as some classes of medications. Most notably, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), while extremely effective, has high rates of cognitive impai...

Brain Stimulation Therapy Eases Tough-to-Treat Depression

...le suffering from depression get no relief from psychotherapy and/or medication. About 70 percent of these "non-responders" can, however, benefit from electroconvulsive therapy. But many of these will later relapse, and there's still the group of individuals who fail all treatments. For this trial, a dozen patien...

Promising results in deep brain stimulation for patients with treatment-resistant depression

...of the patient. Only patients who were unable to get better with most other types of antidepressant treatment including medication, psychotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy were included in the study. "In previous studies using brain imaging, we found the subcallosal cingulate region was a key region in an em...

New form of ECT is as effective as older types but without cognitive side effects

... Philadelphia, PA, May 27, 2008 - In a study appearing in the new issue of BRAIN STIMULATION, scientists report that a new form of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is just as effective as older forms in treating depression but without any of the cognitive side effects found in the older forms. In t...

Study shows new strategy for developing antidepressants

... in a difficult to treat group, meaning individuals who had not responded to other treatments including psychotherapy, traditional antidepressants or electroconvulsive therapy. This group did not attempt all treatment options, like medication. Researchers treated the depressed patients intravenously with ketamine, a ...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...gically implanted the system into three individuals who experienced major depression and who had not responded to other treatments, including drugs of electroconvulsive therapy. All the patients reported that they sensed no sensations when the stimulator was turned on. They also reported that they felt no chan...

Vagal Nerve Stimulation Works To Treat Severe Depression

...s to be effective, he added. ‘This is very different from the delays we see with existing treatments for depression, including pharmacotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT),’ Dr. Conway said. ‘The biggest changes in the brain that we're noting occur between 12 and 24 months after patients began receiving vag...

Antidepressant drugs best for treating Depression

...available treatment for moderate to severe depression is antidepressant and electroconvulsive therapy. // Though there are various reports finding links between use of a...tment options available for treating depression is antidepressant drugs and electroconvulsive therapy....

Electroconvulsive in Medical Technology

New Study Supports Efficacy of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

...strates that VNS Therapy modifies activity of the medial prefrontal cortex, the same area of the brain targeted by many antidepressant medications and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). A critical time for such effective modulation occurs approximately at 30 weeks of treatment. Such modulation could support VNS Therapy'...

Electroconvulsive in Medical Definition

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Electroconvulsive in Medical Dictionary

Electroconvulsive

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a well established, albeit controversial, psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often used as a treatment for... More about E...

Electrical shock

... from electrical shock . ... What kind of immediate medical attention does an electric shock victim require? ... ECT - shock treatments, electroconvulsive therapy and the truth about psychiatry & brain damage. ... "All ECT ( electric shock ) does is produce brain damage. ... ... of the tiss...

Electroconvulsive in Biological News

Growth of new brain cells requires 'epigenetic' switch

...ok at the 40 to 50 genes known to be involved in epigenetics, and see if any of them are turned on in mouse brain cells that have been stimulated with electroconvulsive therapyshock treatment. "It's long been known that ECT induces neurogenesis in rodents and humans, so we used it as our test case to find what is trig...

Team of scientists develops non-invasive method to track nerve-cell development in live human brain

...in the hippocampus of depressed patients. He later demonstrated that an even more pronounced effect was brought about by other depression treatments, electroconvulsive therapy and deep-brain stimulation. The recent finding that neural progenitor cells exist in adult human brain has opened a whole new field in ne...

Nobelist discovers antidepressant protein in mouse brain

...onin systems on p11 levels in brain cells by administering to mice two types of antidepressants ?a tricyclic, a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor ?and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). "These three different ways of treating depression all caused an increase in the amount of p11 in the brains of these mice," said Gr...