: 1880  ECT is used with informed consent as a last line of intervention for major depressive disorder. A round of ECT is effective for about 50% of people with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, whether it is unipolar or bipolar. Follow-up treatment is still poorly studied, but about half of people who respond relapse within twelve months. Aside from effects in the brain, the general physical risks of ECT are similar to those of brief general anesthesia. : 259  Immediately following treatment, the most common adverse effects are confusion and memory loss. ECT is considered one of the least harmful treatment options available for severely depressed pregnant women.A usual course of ECT involves multiple administrations, typically given two or three times per week, until the person no longer has symptoms. ECT is administered under anesthesia with a muscle relaxant. Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its application in three ways: electrode placement, frequency of treatments, and the electrical waveform of the stimulus. These three forms of application have significant differences in both adverse side effects and symptom remission. After treatment, drug therapy is usually continued, and some people receive maintenance ECT.ECT appears to work in the short term via an anticonvulsant effect mostly in the frontal lobes, and longer term via neurotrophic effects primarily in the medial temporal lobe. Other
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or deep transcranial magnetic stimulation is a noninvasive method used to stimulate small regions of the brain.
Yaz may refer to:

People
Yazmith Bataz (born 1972), Mexican sprinter
Yaz Mubarakai (born 1975), Australian politician
Carl Yastrzemski (born 1939), American Hall-of-Fame baseball player
Mike Yastrzemski (born 1990), American professional baseball player, grandson of Carl

Other uses
Yaz culture, an early Iron Age culture of Bactria and Margiana, c. 1500-1100 BC
Yaz-class river patrol craft, Russian Coast Guard vessels
YAZ, IATA code for Tofino Airport in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada
yaz, ISO 639-3 code for the Yakö language, spoken by the Yakö people of Nigeria
Yaz (band) or  Yazoo, an English synth-pop band
Yaz Pistachio, a female character from the comic strip Bloom County
Yaz (drug), a brand name for a birth control pill containing drospirenone that may also be used for other indications
YAZ, a programmer toolkit for development of Z39.50 clients and servers

See also
Yazz (born 1960), pseudonym used by English singer Yasmin Evans
Yazz The Greatest, a stage name of American actor and rapper Bryshere Y. Gray