MST vs ECT: LTE in JAMA Psychiatry, The Response
Out on PubMed, is this responsive LTE:
Magnetic Seizure Therapy vs Electroconvulsive Therapy for Major Depressive Episode-Reply.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 24. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0695. Online ahead of print.PMID: 38656323
The letter is here.
And here:
Here is the response from Deng et al. to the prior letter from McCall et al.I find these rationales for the surprising weakness of the type of ECT used, and the weakness of the MST, to be less than convincing.
MST may develop into a promising treatment with efficacy that rivals ECT, but the current data show it is not there yet. There will be more on this topic soon...
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