Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

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The third class of treatment was electric shock therapy, in which an electric shock was delivered from a galvanic battery (later electromagnetic generators) via an induction coil to greatly increase the voltage.

NEW YORK Whenever I hear people on America s Republican right call themselves conservative, I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock.

But when the world s finance ministers recover from their April shock therapy, they also need to look at the opportunities.

But it has to be technological, so I'll talk about electroshock therapy.

Where is the concern about the millions who are becoming physically dependent on antidepressants? Where are the protests about the one year olds being treated with antipsychotic drugs?

The second class of treatment could be performed while the patient was in the electric bath.

If the 1990 s was the era of economic shock therapy, the present decade may be remembered for economic reform paralysis.

The shock therapy of the Balcerowicz Plan unsettled Poles, but it brought the country s terrifyingly high inflation under control.

Nor can enduring autobiographical memory disturbances and inability to remember lists be readily attributed to ECT, because ECT is rarely given on its own.

The failure of ECT s critics to demonstrate what to them seems obvious indicates an active conspiracy to minimize treatment induced problems and to block those who have been injured by treatment from seeking redress.

The emotional debates over shock therapy vs. gradualism have been replaced by a broad consensus that, while we need to exploit windows of political opportunity, not everything can be done at once, and reversal is always a threat.

Although ECT s opponents believe that it causes brain damage, this is difficult to prove. Like antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, and tranquilizers, ECT has an immediate organic effect.

In his time, electrical treatment had acquired a bad name in the medical profession through its widespread use by quack practitioners.

This is surprising in an era when treatments that work should supposedly be used with some uniformity. In fact, despite a consensus that ECT is the most effective treatment for severe depressive disorder, it comes at the bottom of the list in most treatment regimens for mood disorders.

Shafiq s success shocked many revolutionaries.

There is no dispute that ECT can cause short term memory loss. But critics have found it difficult to demonstrate memory or other cognitive problems that endure beyond three months.

The most common causes of electrical burns in children are electrical cords (60 ) followed by electrical outlets (14 ).

It sometimes seems that the critics are behaving according to the romantic illusion that if they can just abolish ECT, mental illness will disappear with it.

ECT s critics seem to think that if they do not protest against its use at every opportunity, its advocates will inflict it on people who do not need it.

In fact, at recent guideline meetings in the United Kingdom on the issue of ECT, there have been no representatives from psychiatry, but many from patient groups.

This visceral focus on ECT has almost certainly led to ever more people ending up on drugs, and ever more brain damage and memory problems as a consequence.

Since electric force, in turn, is the product of the electric charge and the known electric field, the electric charge of the oil drop could be accurately computed.

Electric pipes

Some of the unease about ECT stems from psychiatry s dark past, when patients in many countries had fewer legal rights than prisoners.

Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin is in shock after her exhibition of paintings was shut down without an explanation.

that's a huge power generating capability, a mobile power generating capability.

Power system protection is a branch of electrical power engineering that deals with the protection of electrical power systems from faults through the isolation of faulted parts from the rest of the electrical network.

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Saddam Hussein s invasion of Kuwait in 1991 shocked the world oil market.

Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life threatening depression including his own. It s a moving and heartfelt talk about relief, redemption and second chances.

Most young journalists, especially those in radio, have been shocked by the censorship.

Extremists kill innocent people in order to dramatize their message in a way that shocks and horrifies their intended audience.

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The second hand EEE market accounts for a large share of total domestic EEE sales.

Circuit diagrams produced using this analogy match the electrical impedance of the mechanical system seen by the electrical circuit, making it intuitive from an electrical engineering standpoint.

No one would wish the trauma that Argentina went through in 1999 2002 on any other country.

A vacation style therapy

Polychemotherapy.

Our electric heater does not work well.

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And for about five seconds, the toaster toasted, but then, unfortunately, the element kind of melted itself.