Posted by SLS on January 18, 2007, at 23:03:22
In reply to RE: I am not going to post on ECT anymore, posted by linkadge on January 18, 2007, at 19:09:02
> Although, no more posts = no more responces.
I know. Like I said, I understand your motivations.
> The people who probably do best on ECT are the ones who hadn't previously got themselves caught-up in internet discusions about ECT induced glutamatergic neurotoxicity, cholinergic dammage, tempoal lobe neuronal loss and gliosis, fibrosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, EEG abnormalities, heat shock protein induction, oxidative stress, altered gene expression, GFAP induction, animal models of permamant cognitive deficit, shadow cells and neuronophagia, areas of cortial devistation, Astrocytic proliferation, necrosis in cortex hippocampus and medulla, Central chromatolysis, induction of ghost cells, Chromatolysis, cell shrinkage, glial nodules beneath the ependyma of the third ventricle, Schemic and pyknotic ganglion cells, Pigmentation and fatty degeneration, Decrease in ganglion cells in frontal lobes, lipoid pigment in globus pallidus and medical nucleus of thalamus, gliosis around ventricles and in marginal areas of brain stem, perivascular gliosis in white matter.
> But wait, the good news is that you likely won't remember all of that after the procedure is over!!!I doubt I would remember all of that before or after...
I don't know if ECT will be withdrawn in your lifetime. I hope it is. I hope there will come to fruition an assortment of new treatments that will obviate the need for it.
Is there a need for it? There is certainly a need for treatments in addition to the drugs we currently have available. Like it or not, ECT is the most efficacious treatment for some people. Is it safe? I don't know. It certainly seems to be for some people. That is a most impressive list you contributed. I'm afraid I don't have the background to put it into context. I think we still need more information to be better able to adjust our risk/benefit analysis of ECT.
I am not so much promoting the use of ECT, as I am not yet ready to take it away from anyone as a treatment.
- Scott
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