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ECT damage is easy to find if you look for it

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The reviewer of Max Fink's Electroshock: Restoring the Mind1 claims that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) “has proved to be one of the safest procedures in medicine” and that there is a “myth, largely promoted by anti-psychiatrists, that ECT damages … brain functioning”.

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Sterling, P. ECT damage is easy to find if you look for it. Nature 403, 242 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35002188

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  1. Kataleptic boots

    10 . 20 times a week? 150 volts? Where are these used? In my home country we use 50 volts and normally 3 times a week. One suspects misinformation her.

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