Setting the Record Straight on Cognition: LTE in Psychiatry Research
Out on PubMed, from authors in India, is this LTE:
Erroneous conclusions about the long-term cognitive effects of electroconvulsive therapy.
Psychiatry Res. 2024 Mar 20;335:115864. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115864. Online ahead of print.PMID: 38547602
And here.
The authors of this LTE take to task the authors of the Guo article published previously in Psychiatry Research. They set the record straight about the flaws and misleading statements in that article about the duration and character of ECT-related cognitive effects. Pandey et al. are quite correct about the importance of accurately presenting ECT to the public, so as not to deter patients from considering a potentially life-saving treatment.
The authors of this LTE take to task the authors of the Guo article published previously in Psychiatry Research. They set the record straight about the flaws and misleading statements in that article about the duration and character of ECT-related cognitive effects. Pandey et al. are quite correct about the importance of accurately presenting ECT to the public, so as not to deter patients from considering a potentially life-saving treatment.
I commented about the Guo et al. article on the blog on Dec. 18th, 2023. To reiterate, the article is so poorly presented, it is hard to take seriously and the review process must be called into question.
Regarding ECT and cognition in general, IMO, a useful statement about the more common of ECT's effects is: "...However, ECT causes relevant side effects, including temporary deficits in episodic memory, which often leads to ECT-related anxiety." (Gbyl et al.,Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 17:110981)
Kudos to our Indian colleagues for making the effort to provide a careful, point-by-point critique of the misleading publication in Psychiatry Research.
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