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IEVref: | 891-05-13 | | ID: |
Language: | en | | Status: Standard |
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Term: | electroconvulsion therapy
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Synonym1: | ECT (abbreviation)
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Synonym2: | electroshock therapy (US)
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Definition: | therapeutic practice in psychiatry which consists of provoking a convulsive crisis by the brief passage of alternating current between two external brain electrodes
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Publication date: | 1998-02 |
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