I am hoping to get a running stream of references for those interested in finding out more about ECT. To start, some are:
- As relayed in our last blog post, check out Mayo Clinic
- Kitty Dukakis: Shock Therapy Saved My Life – ABC News on abcnews.go.com
- Kitty Dukakis And ECT – CBS News Video
- Kitty Dukakis And ECT video – CNET TV
- Katherine Kitty Dukakis on ECT | Psych Central
- Kitty Dukakis & Shock Therapy | World of Psychology
- Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy – Amazon …
- Kitty Dukakis Backs ECT for Depression : NPR
- Scientific Articles on Neurogenisis From ECT as described on PubMed
- Mortality Rate From ECT
- University of Maryland describes their understanding of ECT as a treatment option for Bipolar Mood Disorder and Depression
- Currently under research at Duke University, “Not-So-Deep Brain Stimulation: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- I also really love the 1st hand words from
Here is one of her excellent statements – “No one really knows how ECT works. For the longest time everyone just said it “rebooted” the brain. Hardly scientific. What we now know is that ECT creates neurogenesis, in other words, neuron growth. And this is needed because long term depression kills brain cells and shrinks the brain. (Antidepressants also induce neurogenesis, FYI.) So ECT is able to make connections in the brain that weren’t previously there, and it makes them very, very quickly compared to any other method.” She has done her research.
- Also, enjoy reading The Bipolar Badger who is going to be writing more on his experience with ECT this week (he’s promised). The Badger says, “there is very little positive or objective is more like it out there on the interwebs. While I do not expect every post out there to be positive as not everyone has a great experience with ECT. It as important to mention positive outcomes as well.”