Clinical Neuroscience of ECT (CNECT)

Classics in ECT brings you this article from the Archives of General psychiatry in 1976: Schizophrenia--a follow-up study of results of treatment. May PR , Tuma AH, Yale C, Potepan P, Dixon WJ. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1976 Apr;33(4):481-6. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770040047009. PMID: 938185 The pdf is  here . and from the text: Patients who had been treated initially with ECT or with drug therapy showed a trend towards spending less time in hospital after their release, a delayed post hospital advantage above and beyond the initial advantages of higher release rate, speedier release, lessened cost of treatment, and better global condition at the time of release as reported earlier. ..These beneficial effects from drug therapy and ECT are less marked if one considers only those patients whose treatment was declared to be a success.  There were, however, far more successes among the drug- and ECT treated patients than in the other groups (95% to 96% of the drug alone and drug plus psych

Classics in ECT brings you this article from the Archives of General psychiatry in 1976: Schizophrenia--a follow-up study of results of treatment. May PR , Tuma AH, Yale C, Potepan P, Dixon WJ. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1976 Apr;33(4):481-6. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770040047009. PMID: 938185 The pdf is here . and from the text: Patients who had been treated initially with ECT or with drug therapy showed a trend towards spending less time in hospital after their release, a delayed post hospital advantage above and beyond the initial advantages of higher release rate, speedier release, lessened cost of treatment, and better global condition at the time of release as reported earlier. ..These beneficial effects from drug therapy and ECT are less marked if one considers only those patients whose treatment was declared to be a success. There were, however, far more successes among the drug- and ECT treated patients than in the other groups (95% to 96% of the drug alone and drug plus psychot