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ECT for depressed elderly: what is the evidence and is the evidence enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2006

Prathap Tharyan
Prathap Tharyan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College Vellore, India, Email: [email protected]
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the oldest interventions in psychiatry. Like many aging celebrity rock-stars of the 1960s, ECT has outlived critics who predicted its early demise and in fact continues to create a bigger bang than it did at inception (http://www.rollingstones.com/abiggerbang/). ECT owes its longevity largely to a series of well-conducted trials since the 1970s that secured its endorsement by special committees and task forces of national associations (American Psychiatric Association, 2001; Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995), and guideline developers (Bauer et al., 2002; Fochtmann and Gelenberg, 2005; Kennedy et al., 2001; NICE, 2003).

Type
For Debate
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 19 - 23
Copyright
International Psychogeriatric Association 2006

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