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Bebo@literature.cafe to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Why Does Electroshock Therapy Work? Scientists May Have Solved a Century-Old Mystery

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Why Does Electroshock Therapy Work? Scientists May Have Solved a Century-Old Mystery

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Bebo@literature.cafe to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Scientists from UC San Diego may have solved the century-old mystery of why this controversial treatment works. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, involves triggering a short seizure in the brain using controlled electrical currents. ECT is notably effective in

In these two new studies a new hypothesis for explaining the effectiveness of ECT as a treatment for depression symptoms proposes that ECT alleviates symptoms by increasing aperiodic activity, a type of electrical activity in the brain that doesn’t follow a consistent pattern and is generally considered to be the brain’s background noise.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02631-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02634-9

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    1 year ago

    So… the relays are bad?

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