Monday, 17 January 2011

FMRI studies of ECT

I'm writing this while walking.

I assume these haven't been attempted. It's a guess based on my dislike of tendencies in psychiatric practice. They'd rather just keep shocking people rather than attempt to work out why ECT works (or doesn't). Perhaps this could lead to the use of treatments which don't cause a full on seizure.

The obvious complication is the strong magnets used in fMRI scans. There's not standard non-ferrous ECT eqio

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