electroconvulsive therapy
电休克疗法,电休克治疗,电痉挛疗法,电惊厥治疗
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Psychiatry.
- : a treatment for serious mental illnesses, as severe depressive disorders, involving the application to the head of electric current in order to induce a seizure: usually administered after sedatives and muscle relaxants. Abbreviation: ECT
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Nothing she had tried to treat it, including electroconvulsive therapy, had helped.
So, we said, “All right, we’re gonna give it not once, but we’re gonna give it on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, just like we’d give electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression, for a couple of weeks and see how they do.”
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.
In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.
Thus far we have considered only the scientific aspects of amorphous phosphorus therapy.
The first who wrote upon the therapy of cinchona was Barba, a Spanish physician, whose work was printed in Seville in 1642.
In them we have every phase of modern therapy that has the strong element of suggestion in it.
In every department of therapy this has always been done by enthusiasts.