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Term: electroconvulsion therapy
Synonym1: ECT (abbreviation)
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Synonym2: electroshock therapy (US)
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Definition: therapeutic practice in psychiatry which consists of provoking a convulsive crisis by the brief passage of alternating current between two external brain electrodes


Publication date:1998-02
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