a treatment for severe depression and certain mental disorders. a brief seizure is induced by giving electrical stimulation to the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. also called ect and electroshock therapy.
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electroconvulsive therapy (usually uncountable, 複数形 electroconvulsive therapies)
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in anesthetized patients for therapeutic effect. Its mode of action is unknown. Today, ECT is most often recommended for use as a treatment for severe depression which has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania and catatonia. It was first introduced in 1938 and gained widespread use as a form of treatment in the 1940s and 1950s.