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4 - Section I – The efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy

from Part II - Summary of treatment modalities in psychiatric disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

By
Daniel Maixner  and
Michael A. Taylor
Edited by
Peter Tyrer  and
Kenneth R. Silk
Daniel Maixner
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Dept of Psychiatry Ann Arbor, MI USA
Michael A. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Medical Center Psychiatry 9C USA
Peter Tyrer
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Kenneth R. Silk
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Editor's note

Electroconvulsive therapy has the longest track record of a successful treatment in psychiatry and it would be unwise to cast it aside. Maixner and Taylor do the opposite. They are enthusiasts for the treatment and feel it is significantly underused. They give most attention to bilateral ECT and in terms of efficacy there is no doubt that this is more effective than unilateral treatment despite the advantages unilateral treatment has for likely cognitive disturbance. For more severe forms of depression bilateral ECT has definite advantages and it is in this group, both in general and old age psychiatry, that it is most widely recommended. Other disorders, apart from catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome, have a much lower evidence base for treatment. Electroconvulsive treatment in the future is likely to come under threat from other newer physical treatments involving magnetic manipulations (see Chapter 4, Part II) and many more comparisons are needed between ECT and these new treatments to determine the therapeutic place of each. This chapter does not have a UK author; the differences between UK and Europe and the USA are not great, but a comparison can be made by reading.

Introduction

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the oldest continuous medical treatment for psychiatric disease. When introduced in 1938 it achieved remissions that were considered miraculous in patients who had been ill in mental hospitals for years (Endler, 1988). (Also see pp. 27–31.) As with all successful treatments it was eventually used beyond its understood indications.

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Cambridge Textbook of Effective Treatments in Psychiatry , pp. 57 - 82
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Print publication year: 2008

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