Posted by linkadge on June 6, 2008, at 11:28:59
In reply to Re: Same Depression Program As Above ECT Works 80% » linkadge, posted by Zeba on June 5, 2008, at 21:27:05
>Did you see Sackheim's January 2007 study where >he actually did follow-up research with testing
>(not best measures, but...), and he found that 6 >months post ECT that folks actually do continue >to have memory problems and other issues after >ECT. Apparently he did not expect to find this, >but he did!!! Especially if you are older, >female, and more or less average intelligence or >lower, than you are more susceptible to >developing serious memory problems and >especially is Bilateral ECT is done. Unilateral >also shows problems but somewhat less than >bilateral. Remember the seizure is over the >whole brain.Yes I did read this and it is disturbing. You can probably take his results and times them by 5 to get the true results. Thats the problems is that there is such a sparsity of quality research on the memory loss. I don't think that there has really been the incentive. Those who have the money and the authority to initialte that kind of research probably don't want to know the results.
People with higher IQ probably don't sustain any less brain damamge, its more likely that they have more connections to rely on when some are damaged.
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