No severe cognitive side effects of ECT used on adolescents could be demonstrated. ECT in adults causes memory complaints, retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The tests used in trials with adolescents are limited in measuring these side effects. Moreover there are no prospective studies on this subject with adolescents and the studies discussed have a small number of subjects with possible lack of statistical power.Publications about ECT and side effects in adolescentsSo far I was able to find four articles about cognitive side effects of ECT in adolescents. They belonged to two different research groups.From the department of psychiatry of the .....read more »

Dr Shock usually "hangs" in his chair. It feels comfortable. Read in this article in LifeScience why sitting up straight might be a bad advice. Scientifically tested with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Related posts: 8 Healthy Habits Aren’t So Healthy That You Don’t Know Rocking Lounnge Chair 3D Radiology ..read more »

I read the first edition of this book while on holiday in France. We were cross-country skiing. Not that the weather was bad or the company boring but this book is very informative and easy to read. Read all the other editions as well. For me it is the most narrative book about ECT with a critical appraisal of all the scientific literature. Obviously written by an experienced and good clinician.This book is reviewed on Medical Heaven, I couldn't have done a better job.Related posts: What electroconvuslive therapy is like History of Shock Therapy Magnetic Seizure Therapy as Antidepressant Therapy ..read more »

A list of medical blogs based on a algorithm with the number of comments, posts, feed readers, incoming links. You can see the widget about it in my sidebar.Here is a discussion about rating medical blogs.Related posts: Another Grand Round of English Medblogs A review of medblogs for patients This Week’s Grand Round along Dutch Medblogs ..read more »

The researchers decline naming certain cities but they revealed one trend: use of methadone and methamphetamine (a prescription opiate withdrawal aid and speed) remained constant over 24 days in these cities, but cocaine consumption routinely spiked on the weekends.A method of taking a small sample of incoming sewage at a water treatment plant is developed. This method can extract the record of local drug useEnvironmental analytical chemist Jennifer Field of Oregon State University and her colleagues, using an automated system to test small samples automatically collected at wastewater treatment plants over a 24-hour period. Solids are centrifuged out and the .....read more »

Leon Rosenberg, a former dean of medicine at Yale University, had just attempted suicide by overdose. He was admitted to hospital and prescribed electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT.This is the start of an excellent article by Michael Evans an associate professor at the University of Toronto and staff physician at Toronto Western Hospital.This article also discusses some other myths, for instance about depression:Those on the outside still see it as not really a disease but a weakness. Those on the inside see it as a chronic disease like any other, but with a twist.Or this one about suicide, one of the .....read more »

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Homeopathy claims that their pills go with your individual symptoms of depression and personality. Ignatius for instances cures "depression" after a loved one's death. Ignatius is made from the ignatius bean. Ignatius beans were frequently used as a cheap strychnine substitute for Strychnos nux vomica, strychnine. Ignatius beans are used chiefly as a homeopathic remedy, administered in very small doses because of extreme toxicity. Improper dosage-internal consumption of as little as a fraction of an ounce - can result in muscle spasms and painful convulsions and even death by asphyxiation. Not only are homeopathic "medicines" usually expensive, their efficacy is .....read more »

In medicine as well as in other fields pdf files are widely used. A free reader from adobe is available. But if you need to do other things with the pdf files please go and see this article on lifehacker.com. It has many suggestions for both Mac and Windows users. The most important which I use a lot is:1. merge pdf files2. edit pdf files3. save any file as pdf file.Related posts: Tickler File System Google Apps Tricks Tricks for Using Twitter via Text Messages ..read more »

All you med students out there or other students. Here is an article on how to prepare a research paper. On one of my favorite blogs on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks: lifehack.org.10 tips to help you find, organize, and use the information you need to put together a decent research paper.Related posts: 8 Steps how to interact with a person in a wheelchair 9 Steps for Treatment-Resistant Depression Does a surgeon make more steps a day in the hospital than an internist? ..read more »