On June 16th 2017 , Andrea Cipriani, the Editor of Evidence-Based Mental Health, organised a hangout about ECT in mood disorders that was chaired by Michael Ostacher (Stanford University). This was in response to a recent review about maintenance ECT by Dr Dusan Kolan (Queen’s University, Ontario), which was presented by the …
The Guardian, in a nicely written article, reports the reassuring story of a man with severe and treatment-resistant depression that was helped with ECT. ‘Doctors tried everything in an effort to treat the depression that engulfed my brother. In the end, the only thing that did any good was ECT’ ‘My …
The ISEN Meeting will take place in San Diego, MAY 21ST, 2017 at THE WESTIN SAN DIEGO GASLAMP QUARTER HOTEL. To register online, https://www.isen-ect.org/ect-certificate-course#registration. 8:30 a.m. Morning Symposium—Understanding and Improving the Cognitive Outcomes of ECT [Colleen Loo, MBBS, FRANZCP, MD—Chair] - Cognitive Effects of ECT: A Patient’s Perspective [Carol Kivler, MS, CSP, …
ECT-Workshop of the German Speaking Countries in Cooperation with the ECT-Groups of The Netherlands and Belgium March 24th and 25th, 2017 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Uniklinik RWTH Aachen Friday, 24.03.2017 11.30 – 12.00 Registration and Coffee 12.00 – 12.15 Address of Welcome Frank Schneider – Aachen 12.15 – …
“Once Kyle’s treatment started, a whole new person emerged”, a mother of a boy with autism and self-injurious behavior says. “As time went on, he just kept on getting better and better.” In the October issue of The Atlantic, Apoorva Mandavilli publishes an interesting account on the sometimes life-saving use …
Several symposia, including a high number of EFFECT-members, are accepted for the WFSBP meeting in june 2017. On June 18 (14:30 h) Grözinger and Frieling (Germany) co-chair a symposium on ‘Effects and Side-effects of ECT’ Effects of ECT on the oxygen saturation in the frontal brain (M. Grözinger, Germany) DNA …
Barcelona is the host city for the 2nd International Brain Stimulation meeting, 5 – 8 March 2017 in NH Hesperia Towers. The conference is organized by Elsevier and sponsored by the journal Brain Stimulation. The first meeting, in Singapore was very successful and stimulating. Visit the conference website. On march 5th, a 10 …
On saturday, June 11th, 2016, Maria Svensson defended a PhD-thesis at the University of Lund in Sweden. She presented results of an interesting body of research on the cognitive effects of ECS in rodents. In short: ECS proved to improve cognitive flexibility, and provoke retrograde amnesia, leaving pattern separation ability …
Electroconvulsive therapy – does it work? the Irish Times titles in an interview with Prof Declan McLoughlin, research professor of psychiatry at St Patrick’s University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, and board member of EFFECT. “It’s an odd treatment in that it’s actually been around for 80 years, so a …
