ECT and Heart Rate Variability: New Review From Iran
Out on PubMed, from investigators in Iran, is this review: Investigating the Relationship between Electroconvulsive Therapy and Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review. Rahimian A, Rahmani B, Garshad J, Salarvand A, Mansourian M. Adv Biomed Res. 2023 Aug 31;12:210. doi: 10.4103/abr.abr_95_23. eCollection 2023. PMID: 38073723 The abstract is copied below: Physical therapies such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may result in higher response and recovery rates, especially in patients who have treatment-resistant depression. Various studies have reported different changes in heart rate variability (HRV) parameters before and after depression treatment with ECT. Therefore, the present study reviews systematically the evidence describing changes in HRV parameters and the cardiac autonomic nervous system associated with ECT. Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and Embase electronic databases were searched for papers published up to September 8, 2022, without any restriction on the year a