Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Formerly called seismotherapy and better known under the name of electroshock treatment, is a method of treatment by electricity used in psychiatry, consisting in delivering an electric current of varying intensity to the scalp. It is mainly used to treat states of severe depression.