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Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a neuromodulation treatment in which a controlled, generalised tonic-clonic seizure is therapeutically induced under general anaesthesia using a brief electrical stimulus across the scalp. It remains the single most effective treatment in psychiatry for severe, life-threatening mood and psychotic illness, and is a perennial NEET PG favourite because of its counter-intuitive facts (n

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