Assertion: ect | /r/HasProperty | effective
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text: That ECT Is Effective for Patients With Specific Mental Disorders?
text: Although ECT is generally safe, risks and side effects may include:
text: These findings suggest that “ECT can be a clinically effective treatment for patients with severe forms of schizophrenia,” wrote the study authors.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for depression.1 Research indicates that ECT can be significantly more effective than pharmacotherapy, with 50% to 60% of patients achieving rapid remission of depression after a course of ECT compared with 10% to 40% with pharmacotherapy/psychotherapy.2-4 Beyond its immediate clinical effects, ECT is also associated with decreased psychiatric hospitalization rates5,6 and reduced long-term risks of suicide and all-cause mortality.7
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a relatively safe and effective treatment for some severe mental health conditions that are considered life threatening.
text: Although ECT is generally considered to be a fairly safe procedure, patients with heart disease and underlying neurologic conditions should be fully evaluated before receiving this treatment, as they are at increased risk for developing serious side effects.
text: In 1999, the U.S. Surgeon General's report on mental health concluded that ECT was a safe and effective treatment for certain severe mental disorders when used according to current standards of care.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be effective for the treatment of schizophrenia, according to research presented at the 2016 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.
text: ECT is considered safe and effective for the mother and fetus in the treatment of major depressive disorder during pregnancy.  
text: While its use is still controversial, it can be both an effective and safe treatment for depression.
text: Not only is ECT potentially unsafe, physicians will not know the truly correct way to perform shock therapy until its effects are understood.
text: ECT is a statistically safe treatment.
text: ECT is the safest treatment we have with this - medication and therapy included.
text: ECT is an extremely effective form of treatment.
text: Overall, ECT is one of the safest procedures done under anesthesia.
text: ECT is a relatively safe and effective procedure, providing relief from serious psychiatric symptoms much sooner than other therapies, such as medication and psychotherapy.
text: In adolescents, ECT is highly efficient for several psychiatric disorders, with few and relatively benign adverse effects.
text: ECT is ineffective, unsafe, cruel and crude and causes patients to experience severe and disabling psychological side effects - anything from social unease to memory loss.
text: (read: ECT for Depression: Is ECT Treatment Safe)
text: ECT as it is practiced today is a much safer treatment for depression.
text: Although ECT is an effective weapon against depression, serious depressive illnesses are lifelong and recurring.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a highly effective therapy for a number of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder, that haven’t successfully responded to other treatments such as antidepressants or talk therapy.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, has been an effective procedure for many treatment-resistant mood disorder patients.
text: ECT is considered safe and effective for the mother and fetus in the treatment of major depressive disorder during pregnancy.  
text: Electroshock therapy is safe.
text: most recent report on ECT concludes ECT is an effective antidepressant in all subtypes of major depressive disorder
text: ECT – effective therapy method or not
text: ECT is considered a safe procedure, but like anything, there are potential side effects.
text: While ECT appears to be an effective treatment option for schizophrenia with relatively minimal side effects, the authors urge further research to delineate its role in clinical practice.
text: Despite common misconceptions, Electroconvulsive Therapy is effective, safe and even potentially lifesaving, delivering rapid results in critical situations.
text: ECT is a safe and painless procedure performed by a highly skilled physician who is an expert in the field of psychiatry and in ECT treatments.
text: Many treatment options are available now for Psychiatric disorders but still ECT is considered as an effective treatment and has been found to be potential lifesaver in many cases.
text: ECT is generally considered one of the safest procedures performed under general anesthesia.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, has been an effective procedure for many treatment-resistant mood disorder patients.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered an effective treatment for psychiatric disorders, especially endogenous (major) depressive, bipolar disorders and schizophrenia.
text: Is ECT Effective for Agitation in Dementia?
text: The same review showed ECT was about twice as effective as medications for treating depression.
text: Extensive research has found ECT to be highly effective for the relief of major depression.
text: Although ECT can be very effective for many individuals with serious mental illness, it is not a cure.
text: In schizophrenia, ECT is often extremely effective for a syndrome called catatonia, a condition that may coincide with schizophrenia, some forms of depression, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric disorders in which a person’s body becomes rigid and cannot be moved.
text: One practitioner, Charles Kellner, ECT director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, is so convinced ECT is effective and safe that he allowed a parent to witness a procedure and the BBC to record the intervention.
text: Some researchers insist that no study proves that ECT is effective for more than four weeks.
text: The reason ECT is so effective remains unclear.
text: They also point to studies that suggest ECT is as effective as a placebo effect (other studies have found that approximately 75 percent of patients see a change in their condition).
text: ECT is generally safe and effective.
text: Researchers and medical professionals assert that ECT is safe and effective.
text: Though ECT can be very effective, so can medication, therapy, and many other interventions.
text: By the 1960s, the evidence that ECT was very effective for treating depression was robust.
text: By the 1960s, the evidence that ECT was very effective for treating depression was robust.
text: By the 1960s, the evidence that ECT was very effective for treating depression was robust.
text: now generally accepts that (ECT) is effective and necessary in adults with serious and other illnesses who do not respond to .
text: A systematic review and meta-analysis confirmed that ECT is effective in depression in the short term.
text: With repeated administration, usually over a period of weeks, ECT is highly effective in relieving symptoms of several mental illnesses.
text: No one knows for certain why ECT is effective.
text: While ECT is generally effective, there is no guarantee of effectiveness.
text: Although ECT is effective, its benefits are short-lived.
text: It is also effective in mania and in some psychoses.
text: Yet, results of a recent review study published by Mayo Clinic psychiatrists looking at two decades of clinic practice and outcome with ECT in this population suggest it should be considered, underlining that it is safe and effective.
text: range of the number of treatments the consentor is approving, 6) statement that there is no guarantee that ECT will be effective, 7) statement regarding the need for continuation/maintenance somatic treatment,
text: ECT is particularly effective as a short-term therapy for sudden, severe episodes of depression associated with suicidal tendencies.
text: For depression where the diagnosis is less clear or particularly where there may be a combination of diagnoses, ECT may still be effective against depressive symptoms but the response rate is significantly lower (50-60%) and the response is often less satisfying to the patient.
text: Despite the controversial history of ECT, there is now a clear body of scientific evidence that ECT is effective in improving depressive and psychotic symptoms in the short term.
text: However, ECT may be effective for psychotic schizophrenic exacerbations when affective symptomatology is prominent, in catatonic schizophrenia, and when there is a history of a prior favorable response to ECT.
text: There is very limited evidence that ECT is effective for delirium.
text: Youssef and colleagues (2017) reviewed data on whether ECT is effective in the treatment of PTSD.
text: Despite not knowing how it works, it’s clear that for some people with a mental illness, ECT is incredibly effective.
text: Although the mechanism of action isn't entirely understood, there is evidence that ECT is effective in treating certain psychiatric disorders.
text: ECT can be effective for severely depressed people who have not responded to other treatments such as antidepressant medications.
text: A consensus panel representing psychiatry, psychology, neurology, psychopharmacology, epidemiology, law, and the general public considered the scientific evidence and agreed on answers to the following questions: What is the evidence that ECT is effective for patients with specific mental disorders?
text: ECT is often effective in patients who have previously failed to respond to medication.
text: The panel has found that ECT is demonstrably effective for a narrow range of severe psychiatric disorders in a limited number of diagnostic categories: delusional and severe endogenous depression and manic and certain schizophrenic syndromes.
text: Although ECT is effective, it causes pronounced memory problems and its [antidepressant] effects are transitory.
text: He writes, “There is no doubt that ECT is effective and life-saving for a selected population of patients.
text: Although ECT is effective, its benefits are short-lived.
text: ECT is safe, painless and very effective in treating depression.
text: Although ECT is effective in the short-term to get out of depression, patients can relapse quickly, sometimes within months or weeks if they are not taking antidepressant medication during and after ECT.
text: Several researches done in the past have shown that, after several repeated administration, ECT is highly effective in relieving symptoms of several mental illnesses.
text: ECT is both effective and well tolerated in patients who have received appropriate medical evaluation.
text: Nonetheless, there have been a few studies that have concluded that ECT was effective in reducing agitation without producing major side effects.
text: Additional research is needed to continue to assess whether ECT is effective and safe for use in people with agitation and aggression in dementia.
text: Psychiatrists claim that ECT is a “treatment” for certain mental disorders and that it is “effective” for “treatment-resistant depression” (where a cocktail of dangerous drugs have not only failed to help, they have worsened individuals), yet there is no scientific evidence to support this.
text: ECT can be very effective in the treatment of bipolar disorder symptoms for certain patients.
text: There is clear scientific evidence that ECT is effective in improving depressive and psychotic symptoms.
text: I think ECT is a treatment which is very, very effective and has very little in the way of side effects.
text: “ECT appears to be equally effective for both bipolar and unipolar depression and the remission rates are encouraging, especially for bipolar depression.
text: The first thing to note is that the Dierckx et al study was not designed to answer the question: is ECT effective?
text: Since the 2004 review [Chapter on Electroconvulsive Therapy, in Models of Madness, by Read, Mosher, and Bentall, 2004] there have been no findings that ECT is effective, but significant new findings confirming that the brain damage, in the form of memory dysfunction, is common, persistent, and significant, and that it is related to ECT rather than to depression.
text: However, ECT may be effective for psychotic schizophrenic exacerbations when affective symptomatology is prominent, in catatonic schizophrenia, and when there is a history of a prior favorable response to ECT.
text: This is due to the limited evidence that ECT is effective for delirium and that there may be considerable risks with ECT in medically unstable patients.
text: Also known as shock therapy, ECT is effective in 55 percent to 90 percent of depression cases, with significant reductions in symptoms typically occurring within two to four weeks.
text: These groups ignore the extensive, uncontroverted evidence in the scientific literature that ECT is both safe and effective as a treatment for severe depression.
text: ECT is highly effective for mixed episodes and people who are severely depressed.
text: Extensive research has found ECT to be highly effective for the relief of major depression.
text: Although ECT can be very effective for many individuals with serious mental illness, it is not a cure.
text: But Dr. Sameer Jauhar at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and Professor Declan McLoughlin at Trinity College Dublin, argue that evidence shows ECT is effective and safe in depression and that adverse side effects can be managed.
text: ECT is still used 80 years on because evidence shows it is effective for treatment resistant depression, which is often severe and sometimes life threatening, as well as resistant mania and catatonia," they write.
text: Studies show ECT is faster and is more broadly effective than medication in resolving acute mood episodes such as unipolar and bipolar major depression, bipolar mania, and bipolar mixed states.
text: but it's long been determined that ECT is effective," says Professor Ian Reid at the University of Aberdeen, who heads up the team treating John.
text: ECT is not only effective, but it's also a lot less scary-looking than it probably was in the '50s.
text: While Ferrier noted it was likely there were many factors behind that trend, he added that ECT appeared to be particularly effective for people with severe depression with life-threatening symptoms, psychosis and certain other diagnoses, and even more so among elderly women in this group.
text: There is clearly documented evidence for the effectiveness of ECT in relieving psychiatric disorder with studies showing that ECT is effective 70-90% of the time (Baghai and Moller, 2008; Fink and Taylor, 2007; Kellner, 2010) with an especially high success rate when used to treat severe depression.
text: Although ECT is effective, it doesn’t cure the mental illness.
text: One practitioner, Charles Kellner, ECT director at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, is so convinced ECT is effective and safe that he allowed a parent to witness a procedure and the BBC to record the intervention.
text: ECT is generally safe and effective.
text: Although ECT is generally safe, risks and side effects may include:
text: Researchers and medical professionals assert that ECT is safe and effective.
text: Is ECT safe?
text: With advances in both anesthesia and technology, ECT today is very safe; the risk of injury or death is extremely low (mortality less than 1 per 70,000 treatments), far below the risk of childbirth.4
text: ECT is generally safe, but as with most treatments, it has risks and side effects.
text: In fact, ECT is safe and among the most effective treatments available for depression.
text: In most cases, ECT is very safe, but it should be used with caution in anyone with a brain tumor or other anomaly.
text: Although ECT is generally safe, risks and side effects may include:
text: Yet, results of a recent review study published by Mayo Clinic psychiatrists looking at two decades of clinic practice and outcome with ECT in this population suggest it should be considered, underlining that it is safe and effective.
text: ECT is generally safe and painless; it is conducted while patients are under brief general anesthesia.
text: ECT has always been relatively safe.
text: Even so, ECT is remarkably safe even in some of the most seriously medically ill patients who have concurrent depression.
text: Q: Is ECT safe?
text: ECT is safe, painless and very effective in treating depression.
text: With advances in both anesthesia and technology, ECT today is very safe; the risk of injury or death is extremely low (mortality less than 1 per 70,000 treatments), far below the risk of childbirth....
text: ECT was also found to be relatively safe for people with dementia.
text: Additional research is needed to continue to assess whether ECT is effective and safe for use in people with agitation and aggression in dementia.
text: With up to 12 treatments over the course of a few weeks, ECT is remarkably safe and performed under close medical supervision.
text: It appears that children and adolescents are no less likely to benefit from ECT than are adults, and so the quick answer to your question is: Yes, ECT is safe in children and adolescents.
text: These groups ignore the extensive, uncontroverted evidence in the scientific literature that ECT is both safe and effective as a treatment for severe depression.
text: Although ECT is generally safe, risks and side effects may include:
text: Sue Cunliffe, who was a paediatrician before having ECT, says she was told ECT was safe, but suffered catastrophic brain injury, leaving her unable to perform basic tasks.
text: But Dr. Sameer Jauhar at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and Professor Declan McLoughlin at Trinity College Dublin, argue that evidence shows ECT is effective and safe in depression and that adverse side effects can be managed.
text: Antidepressants are associated with side-effects in elderly people, whereas ECT is very safe
text: One of the reasons, we think, is that use of antidepressants is associated with quite a lot of side-effects in the elderly, whereas ECT is actually really very safe and straightforward in the elderly – provided you do it with appropriate standards,” he said.
text: ECT is even safe enough for pregnant women when other treatments have been unsuccessful at managing symptoms of a serious psychiatric condition.
text: Hence, ECT is a highly effective treatment for people suffering from severe depression.
text: These frightening images cause great harm because in addition to being a very safe procedure, ECT is a highly effective treatment for many patients suffering from severe psychosis, mania or depression," says Søren D. Østergaard.
text: Chinese national practice guidelines recommend ECT for the treatment of schizophrenia, depressive disorders, and bipolar disorder and in the Chinese literature, ECT is an effective treatment for schizophrenia and mood disorders.
text: ECT is an effective treatment for severe depression.
text: As the procedures used with ECT became more refined, psychiatrists found that ECT was an effective treatment for schizophrenia and soon after, depression and bipolar disorder.
text: Nevertheless, ECT was found to be an effective treatment for conditions such as severe depression, acute psychosis, and mania.
text: Current evidence suggests that ECT is an effective treatment for depression in dementia, although the relatively small number of controlled studies hampers the comparison of effectiveness between healthy non-geriatric patients and those with dementia.
text: The authors concluded that the reviewed articles suggested that ECT could be an effective treatment for severe and treatment-refractory agitation and aggression in dementia, with few adverse consequences.
text: This report stated that ECT was an effective treatment for severe depression, mania and some states of psychosis, leading to remission in 60% to 70% of cases.
text: ECT is an effective treatment that has been shown to alleviate symptoms associated with depression.
text: However, later, as the procedures used with ECT became more refined, psychiatrists found that ECT was an effective treatment for schizophrenia and soon after, depression and bipolar disorder.
text: Current evidence suggests that ECT is an effective treatment for depression in dementia, although the relatively small number of controlled studies hampers the comparison of effectiveness between healthy non geriatric patients and those with dementia.
text: ECT is an effective treatment with a strong evidence base, particularly for the treatment of severe depressive disorders.
text: Current evidence indicates that ECT is an effective treatment during pregnancy and that the risks to mother and foetus are relatively low (Sinha et al., 2017; Leiknes et al., 2015; Anderson and Reti, 2009; Miller, 1994) when provided using available guidelines (Lakshmana et al., 2014; Austin and Highet, 2017).
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most rapid and effective treatment for severe depression, and is a highly effective treatment for other psychiatric conditions including mania, schizoaffective disorder, catatonic states (patient unable to move, respond or speak due to an emotional disorder) and acute schizophrenic exacerbations.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for severe depression and other mental disorders, but the procedure is feared by many.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for clinical depression (or major depression), as well as in some forms of recurrent or chronic clinical depression with one big caveat — nearly everyone who receives this treatment has some sort of memory loss.
text: There is unmistakable evidence that electroconvulsive therapy is an effective treatment for many depressive illnesses, and can act much faster than drugs.
text: The first report, made public in March, found electroconvulsive therapy to be an effective treatment for severely depressed patients who do not respond to drug treatments.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective treatment for a bipolar disorder manic episode that cannot be treated with mood stabilizers or other medications.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment for certain psychiatric disorders such as major depression, catatonia, certain types of psychosis, and sometime for bipolar mania.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy, once known as shock therapy, is a safe and effective treatment for depression and other mental illnesses.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been around for decades and is a safe and effective treatment for depression.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment for severe mental illness.
text: ECT is a safe procedure that causes no pain or discomfort for patients.
text: Generally speaking, ECT is a safe procedure, in spite of the general public’s perceptions or depictions in the media.
text: Overall, ECT is a very safe procedure.
text: Gu and co-workers (2017) noted that agitation poses a significant challenge in the treatment of schizophrenia; ECT is a safe and effective treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders, but no meta-analysis of ECT treatment for agitation in schizophrenia has yet been reported.
text: ECT is a safe and effective treatment that involves passing a carefully controlled electrical current through a person’s brain to trigger a seizure — a rapid discharge of nerve impulses throughout the brain.
text: ECT is a safe and effective treatment for many psychiatric illnesses.
text: Despite common misconceptions, Electroconvulsive Therapy is effective, safe and even potentially lifesaving, delivering rapid results in critical situations.
text: Opinions are often polarised; some consider electroconvulsive therapy to be effective and potentially lifesaving whereas others regard it as unhelpful and harmful and campaign energetically for it to be banned.
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used for bipolar symptoms and is highly effective for mixed states.
text: ECT is considered relatively safe in terms of teratogenicity and neonatal toxicity.  
text: ECT is considered very safe, and no more dangerous than a minor surgical procedure requiring a short general anesthetic.
text: The authors concluded that these results suggested that ECT is an effective and safe treatment for agitation and aggression in dementia.
text: In conclusion, the results suggest that ECT is an effective and safe treatment for agitation and aggression in dementia.
text: ECT is ineffective, unsafe, cruel and crude and causes patients to experience severe and disabling psychological side effects - anything from social unease to memory loss.
text: ECT is a very safe treatment.
text: ECT is the safest treatment," said Dr. Aznaurova.
text: ECT is an extremely effective form of treatment.
text: Overall, ECT is one of the safest procedures done under anesthesia.
text: When appropriately administered, ECT is an extremely safe and effective procedure in a wide variety of high-risk patient populations (127).