BBC News - Why are we still using electroconvulsive therapy?

BBC News - Why are we still using electroconvulsive therapy?

The idea of treating a psychiatric illness by passing a jolt of electricity through the brain was one of the most controversial in 20th Century medicine. So why are we still using ECT, a procedure described by its critics as barbaric and ineffective?

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