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Do Neurologists Know Something the Rest of Us Haven't Yet Figured Out? |
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Written by Sydney Samant, M.D.
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Feb 17, 2007 |
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Sydney Samant, M.D.
Clinical Psychiatry News
March 1983
"As a neurologist and electroencephalographer, I have seen many patients after ECT, and I have no doubt that ECT produces effects identical to those of a head injury. After multiple sessions of ECT, a patient has symptoms identical to those of a retired, punch-drunk boxer...After a few sessions of ECT the symptoms are those of moderate cerebral contusion, and further enthusiastic use of ECT may result in the patient functioning at a subhuman level. Electroconvulsive therapy in effect may be defined as a controlled type of brain damage produced by electrical means."
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