Study about 'shock therapy' for depression suggests more patients should try it sooner

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Very few depression patients receive the treatment once known as 'shock therapy'. But a new cost-effectiveness study suggests that the modern form of the approach, called ECT, should be made more available to patients who fail to get relief from two other types of treatment.

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