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Electroconvulsive Therapy

"Electroconvulsive Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Electrically induced CONVULSIONS primarily used in the treatment of severe AFFECTIVE DISORDERS and SCHIZOPHRENIA.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Electroconvulsive Therapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Electroconvulsive Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008 and 2011
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