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  • Title: [Discovery and brief developmental history of electro -- convulsive therapy in mental diseases].
    Author: Zhang X, Weng W, Lu H.
    Journal: Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi; 2001 Oct; 31(4):213-6. PubMed ID: 11877130.
    Abstract:
    With its introduction in 1938, electro -- convulsive therapy (ECT) rapidly became accepted as a mainstream treatment. Its usage opened a new era treatment of mental diseases. ECT is a very effective treatment for major psychosis with high incidence such as endogenous depression, catatonia in schizophrenia and so on. Until recently it still has a place in psychiatric disorders even when effective antipsychotic chemicals are applied today.
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