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deliberately misfiring the brain to make it fire correctly afterward.
means a medical procedure that induces a brief controlled seizure with electric current to treat severe depression and other psychiatric conditions.
from invented in 1938 by italian neurologist ugo cerletti, who reportedly got the idea watching pigs get stunned with electricity before slaughter at a rome slaughterhouse.
modern dosepatient is under general anesthesia, feels nothing
success rateworks for roughly 70-90 percent of severe depression cases
stigma vs realityone flew over the cuckoos nest still haunts its image
still usedover 100000 people receive it yearly in the us
for instance
carrie fisher — used ect for bipolar disorder, wrote about it openly
kitty dukakis — governor's wife credited it with saving her from depression
cuckoos nest — 1975 film cemented ect as horror movie shorthand