Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Second Opinion

Talking Points from peer-reviewed journals
compiled by Gary Null
May 2001

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Table of Contents

• Side Effects: Effects on Memory and Cognition
• Death by ECT
• ECT Doesn't Prevent Suicide
• ECT is Unnecessary
• Relapse
• Cardiovascular Complications
• ECT, Women and the Elderly
• ECT with Children
• Longer Hospital Stays
• ECT is Brain Damage
• Brain Changes During ECT
• Changes in the Electroencephalogram (E.E.G.)
• ECT is Inhumane
• Adverse Psychological Effects
• Epilepsy
• Lack Of Efficacy

(see also "Electroconvulsive Therapy: Abstracts")

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