How to Use electroconvulsive therapy in a Sentence

electroconvulsive therapy

noun
  • This stay lasts four months, and is finally brought to a close by treatment with electroconvulsive therapy.
    — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2021
  • All of this comes together in his account of electroconvulsive therapy, which Antrim believes preserved his life.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, doctors treat him with ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy, with mixed results.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • News then came out that Eagleton had been treated for depression and had electroconvulsive therapy.
    — Philip Klinkner, The Conversation, 9 July 2024
  • The treatment is less invasive than electroconvulsive therapy, which works by inducing seizures in patients under anesthesia.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • His treatments included electroconvulsive therapy, during which doctors use electric currents to spark a brain seizure, and also narcotizing drugs.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • It can be measured by the 60 electroconvulsive therapy treatments, the 11 hospital stays or seven therapists.
    — USA Today, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Doctors use electroconvulsive therapy to treat him, and Paxton's first and only treatment endows him with a freakish sixth sense that leads to uncommon, truly heroic experiences on the job.
    — Courier Journal Staff, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2021
  • So have Chinese media accounts of abuses, like beatings, electroconvulsive therapy and solitary confinement.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That’s much weaker than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which delivers about 800 milliamperes to the brain — a current strong enough to cause seizures.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Currently, electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is the quickest and most effective pathway for such patients.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Shock therapy, also called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT, is a treatment approach for mental health conditions.
    — Janelle McSwiggin, Msn, Health, 11 July 2024
  • Carol and Anna both undergo electroconvulsive therapy, and Carol has sporadic access to talk therapy.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The committee should also encourage greater use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
    — D. J. Jaffe, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Research has shown that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is also somewhat effective.
    — Karen Pallarito, Health, 2 June 2024
  • Research also suggests that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be helpful for schizophrenia that isn’t responding well to other treatments.
    — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 15 Sep. 2018
  • In the past, researchers have found that anti-depressants and even behavioral therapy and electroconvulsive therapy just don’t work for everyone that suffers from MDD.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Oct. 2022
  • In some circumstances, a clinician might recommend electroconvulsive therapy.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But for patients with depression that does not improve with medications, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be highly effective.
    — Elizabeth Landau, Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The illness is temporary, and in addition to antipsychotic and antidepressant medications, electroconvulsive therapy has been shown to be an effective treatment.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Then the finale documents various treatments used today, including deep brain stimulation surgery, infusions of ketamine and modern electroconvulsive therapy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
  • In cases that don’t respond to therapy or meds, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — electrical shocks that stimulate the brain while the patient is under anesthesia — can help some people find relief from symptoms.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Doctors in Italy first used electroconvulsive therapy in 1938 to treat schizophrenia; in the decades that followed, the treatment spread to other countries and other disorders, especially depression.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2012
  • Also, for chronic recurrent depression that can be difficult to treat, additional options like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be very effective.
    — Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News, 1 June 2018
  • More than 20 medications, by his count, hadn’t helped him in any durable way; neither had electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or ketamine infusions.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The movement, driven by academic researchers and current and former mental health patients, rejects many psychiatric diagnoses and practices, including electroconvulsive therapy, seclusion therapy and the prescribing of medication.
    — Julia Carmel, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • More specialized treatments — ECT, or electroconvulsive therapy, and transcranial magnetic and vagus nerve stimulation — are available but come with cumbersome mechanics, higher costs and side effects.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The movement, driven by academic researchers and current and former mental health patients, rejects many psychiatric diagnoses and practices, including electroconvulsive therapy, seclusion therapy, and the prescribing of medication.
    — Julia Carmel, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2020
  • These conclusions miss key clues, Farah says, such as how Hemingway's condition actually worsened after receiving normally curative electroconvulsive therapy, a contradiction that inspired him to start writing his book.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
  • These subjects, says Calhoun, were more likely to respond to treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a treatment generally reserved for those with depression that is unresponsive to less invasive therapies.
    — Hannah Thomasy, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021

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