Posted by blueberry1 on January 15, 2007, at 5:49:40
In reply to ECT causes permanent cognitive deficits + amnesia, posted by ryanz on January 14, 2007, at 2:07:47
Personally I would only trust studies that followed up patients for 3 to 12 years. What does ECT do in the longterm? Longterm is not 6 months or 18 months. I seem to have leveled off at a certain level of minor cognitive dysfunction that is not getting worse or getting better, but is definitely a notch below where I was before ECT. Just to be able to think as clearly, remember as clearly, plan as clearly as pre-ECt, I need a stimulant like Ritalin or Provigil. Basically ECT created partial ADD and partial alheimerzs when none existed.
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