Electroshock
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- ECT is used as a psychiatric treatment for depression, shizophrenia and mania and consists of sending an electric current of 130 to 175 volts through the patient's brain for a period of a one-tenth to one-and -a-half seconds
- Procéd? de traitement psychiatrique consistant à provoquer une paere de conscience, suivie de convulsions, par le passage d'un courant alternatif à travers la bo?te crânienne (Le Petit Robert).
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Electroshock
- UF Electroconvulsive therapy