Posted by alexandra_k on October 19, 2013, at 1:03:52
In reply to Re: Were you a ECT horror story? » johnLA, posted by baseball55 on October 18, 2013, at 19:39:53
nobody knows the mechanism of action for pretty much anything... even the neurotransmitter theories of mental disorders are in their infant stages...
the current state of our knowledge in the cognitive neurosciences of memory is... a big mess. conceptually. it is obvious that there isn't any one such thing as memory... because people can have memories for certain kinds of things messed up while their memories for certain other kinds of things remains intact... people can have problems storing new information but are fine otherwise. there are all kinds of things... it is even fairly tricky to sort memory problems from perceptual problems from storage problems to retrieval problems...
so it really is open just what kinds of messed up memory ECT produces in some or all people.
ongoing problems are harder... ongoing problems with working memory, for example. or memories for stuff formed well before the 6 month window (e.g., problems with childhood memories or whatever). directory issue problems (i have gone through a period wondering whether my current mind is currently f*ck*d up in a way it wouldn't be if i hadn't have had the ECT).
maybe that is one of the worst things about it? one always wonders... whenever anything funky happens with memory... was it the ECT? or was i always like that?
i... can't remember.
ahaha.
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