Posted by SLS on July 19, 2006, at 6:32:34
In reply to Re: Anyone had ECT?, posted by mayzee on July 18, 2006, at 21:28:07
> Scott, Do you know what's different about ECT treatments today compared with 1991. Have there been improvements in the procedure? Thanks, Mayzee
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> > In a correspondence with Max Fink, MD, he recommended to me that I not judge the treatments of today by the failures of 1991. I would consider high dose unilateral right.I described my procedure to him. I know this is going to provoke cynacism, but he recommended that I obtain his book. There was only so much he could tell me in a short email.
I think the main difference is the switch from unilateral left to unilateral right and the finding that high-dose unilateral right is almost as effective as bilateral, but without the memory and cognitive side effects.
- Scott
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