APPLIED RADIOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.

Detailed explanation-2: -Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that has not responded to other treatments. ECT involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Research has shown that 60 to 80 per cent of people with depression achieve remission with a course of ECT. This treatment often helps people who do not feel better after trying other treatments, such as medications.

Detailed explanation-4: -ECT is a relatively safe and low-risk procedure that is helpful in the treatment of depression, suicidality, severe psychosis, food refusal secondary to depression, and catatonia.

Detailed explanation-5: -ECT is generally used when severe depression doesn’t respond to other forms of therapy. Or it might be used when patients pose a severe threat to themselves or others and it is too dangerous to wait until medications take effect.