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therapy (ECT), also known as electroshock, is a controversial
psychiatric treatment in which seizures are induced with
electricity for therapeutic effect. Today, ECT is most often
used as a treatment for severe major depression which has not
responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment
of mania, catatonia, schizophrenia and other disorders. It first
gained widespread use as a form of treatment in the 1940s and
50s; today, an estimated 1 million people worldwide receive ECT
every year, usually in a course of 6-12 treatments administered
2 or 3 times a week. Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its
application in three ways; electrode placement, length of time
that the stimulus is given,