Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Primer

Topics: brief pulse | Depression | ECT | Innovations | Ketamine | maintenance ECT | memory loss | retrograde amnesia | Stigma | Suicidality | TMS | unilateral vs bilateral

CHPR: Welcome, Dr. Seiner. Can you tell us what led to your interest in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and neurotherapeutics? Dr. Seiner: I went to the University of Michigan and got a degree in chemical engineering, but I decided I didn’t want to fractionate oil for a living, so I went to medical school thinking I would be an internist. While in me