Clinical Neuroscience of ECT (CNECT)

 Here are images that you have probably seen hundreds of times, but largely ignored. A small bar graph appears at the left of the screen when you access PubMed. You can full screen it and get one of the above graphs. These are histograms of the number of citations/year for the chosen search term ("Results By Year"). If you hover over the bars, you get the number of hits in that particular year. So, about 17,200 citations total in the ECT literature, with peaks in 1956 (355) and 1986 (307), and a nadir in 1973 (107), and 550 as of this writing in 2020. (The search of "convulsive therapy," a common earlier name for the treatment, is complicated; most of the 21,000 hits are either actually "electroconvulsive therapy" or something not ECT, but many from the early years are correctly "convulsive therapy." The more recent ones cannot be correct, as the term is no longer widely used.) The graphs are a reminder that searching "ECT" gives incom