Leila Marie Frid, Ute Kessler, Olga Therese Ousdal, Åsa Hammar, Jan Haavik, Frank Riemer, Marco Hirnstein, Lars Ersland, Vera Jane Erchinger, Eivind Haga Ronold, Gyrid Nygaard, Petter Jakobsen, Alexander R Craven, Berge Osnes, Renata Alisauskiene, Hauke Bartsch, Stephanie Le Hellard, Anne-Kristin Stavrum, Ketil J Oedegaard, Leif Oltedal
BACKGROUND: Noninvasive neurostimulation treatments are increasingly being used to treat major depression, which is a common cause of disability worldwide. While electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are both effective in treating depressive episodes, their mechanisms of action are, however, not completely understood. ECT is given under general anesthesia, where an electrical pulse is administered through electrodes placed on the patient's head to trigger a seizure...
October 30, 2023: BMC Psychiatry