Why Does Electroshock Therapy Work? Scientists May Have Solved a Century-Old Mystery ( scitechdaily.com )
In these two new studies a new hypothesis for explaining the effectiveness of ECT as a treatment for depression symptoms proposes that ECT alleviates symptoms by increasing aperiodic activity, a type of electrical activity in the brain that doesn’t follow a consistent pattern and is generally considered to be the brain’s...
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