When do doctors give electric shocks?

 

Electric shock treatment, or electroconvulsive therapy, is sometimes used with people suffering from mental illness in which severe depression is the main symptom.

      It was first used in 1938 by U. Cerletti and L. Bini in Rome, and was recommended for the treatment of manic-depression and schizophrenia (literally, “splitting of the mind”).

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