What Is Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT)?
Electro-Convulsive Therapy is a type of treatment option offered to those suffering from mental and behavior illnesses, such as catatonia and schizophrenia. Electro-Convulsive Therapy is also known as ECT, and historically known as electro-shock treatment. While ECT has a notorious connotation, it is a treatment option that has been refined over many decades of testing and studying short and long term side effects and successes. Electro-Convulsive Therapy was discovered and pioneered by an Italian nero-scientist by the name of Ugo Cerletti. His discovery came in the late 1930s when he tested ECT treatment on the first human patient. Since then, ECT treatments have been more and more widespread and accepted, much thanks to the work that Ugo documented during his time he studied this treatment option. Today, ECT is widely used. It is estimated that over a million people a year receive ECT. ECT can be considered controversial for various reasons, but one can’t deny the success that ECT ha
