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Practice of ECT guidelines in the UK v. the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ajay K. Upadhyaya
Ajay K. Upadhyaya*
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Coventry Mental Health Unit, Coventry CV2 2TE
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Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment for some psychiatric disorders, but its mechanisms of action remain unclear. In the last decade ECT seems to have enjoyed a resurgence of research interest and some recent findings have raised exciting possibilities of making it a more rational and targeted treatment.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 9 , September 1993 , pp. 528 - 531
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