Transcription of ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY TODAY
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ELECTROCONVULSIVETHERAPYTODAYI rving M. Reti, ,is the director of the ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY Service at TheJohns Hopkins Hospital and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry andBehavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has receivednumerous honors in his distinguished career, including The Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, and his research work is funded by theNational Institutes of Health. His research papers have been published in such medicaljournals asNeuropsychopharmacology, the Journal of Neurochemistry, and theEuropean Journal of Reti hails from Sydney, Australia, where he earned his (Bachelor of Medicineand Bachelor of Surgery the equivalent of an in the United States). He moved tothe United States to do his psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins and served as chiefresident. ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT) is hands-down the most controversial treat-ment in modern psychiatry.
the electrical current is to induce a generalized seizure. Even the term electro- convulsive is misleading, given that drugs are used to suppress the convulsions (powerful involuntary muscle contractions) that typically accompany a seizure.
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