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Nature 401, 327 (23 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/43784
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- University of Victoria
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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- Rhydburg Pharmaceuticals
- Selaqui-Dehradun India
Taking the horror out of shocks
Hugh Freeman1
In an America long besotted with psychotherapy, Max Fink carried an often lonely torch for the physical treatment of psychiatric disorders. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been in worldwide use for 60 years and has proved to be one of the safest procedures in medicine, with a very high success rate in appropriate cases.
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