Assertion: ect | /r/Causes | brain damage
Facets:
value: at cellular or macroscopic level
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Does ECT Cause Brain Damage?
text: When her husband began attempting to explain to Alice that the ECT was causing her brain damage and that she should stop, she attempted to defend the use of ECT by using Gordon as an example.
text: People often worry that ECT will cause brain damage or drastically change their personality
text: There is no evidence that ECT causes brain damage.
text: There is no evidence that ECT causes brain damage.
text: Dr. Gorman limits his denials to "memory loss" and doesn't directly address reduced intelligence and reduced ability to experience emotions as a result of ECT, but his words are nevertheless falsely reassuring about these effects and about ECT caused brain damage.
text: The FDA has admitted that ECT can cause cognitive and memory dysfunction, neuropathological changes or brain damage, and death.
text: The FDA ignored the fact that ECT causes brain damage and that cells can suffer dysfunction, temporary injury, permanent damage or even cell death from the administration of ECT.
text: Many people also mistakenly believe ECT is painful and causes brain damage, which has given the treatment a social stigma that makes millions of patients reluctant to have the therapy.
text: Professor John Read at the University of East London, who has published several reviews of the ECT research literature, and Sue Cunliffe, a patient who has had ECT, say it has no long term benefits compared with placebo and can cause brain damage.
text: They argue that no robust evidence shows ECT causes brain damage at cellular or macroscopic level, and that relapse rates after ECT are similar to antidepressants and are a function of the illness, "reinforcing need to continue with antidepressants, ECT, or both after a successful acute course of ECT.