Electroconvulsive therapy prior

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used for severe mania or depression during pregnancy and for mixed episodes prior to treatment, anticonvulsants, lithium, and benzodiazepines should be tapered off to maximize therapy and minimize adverse effects. 

Combined risperidone and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) produced a remarkable improvement in one patient s refractory depression, but it also caused a return of prior TD symptoms (106). When clozapine was added to the ECT-risperidone regimen and risperidone was tapered gradually, the patient s TD signs and symptoms remitted, and she responded well to combined ECT and clozapine. 

Ross (2006) recently reviewed the sham ECT literature The author reviewed the placebo-controlled literature on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression. No study demonstrated a significant difference between real and placebo (sham) ECT at 1 month posttreatment. This was the crowning summary of considerable prior research confirming that ECT is ineffective. 

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