Over the past several decades, psychopharmacological treatments in psychiatry have been
subjected to intensive methodological scrutiny in the continual assessment of their efficacy
and safety. Although one of the most dramatic and controversial therapeutic approaches in
psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has not received the same concentrated,
systematic attention. Through a comprehensive literature search, the present authors have
attempted to provide answers relating to the efficacy and the safety of conventional ECT and …