ECT is an electrically-induced seizure as far as I am aware. It is an
insane treatment in an insane world.
There's a placebo effect seen in ECT trails. Why not, before using real
ECT, enter each patient into a trial and give them placebo ECT under
trial conditions (to replicate the environment that produced the placebo
ECT effect in some people).
This zany idea could work. But...there's the nocebo effect - the
negative placebo effect. I'm not sure if the same side effects seen in
ECT were seen in the placebo group who responded to treatment.
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