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Articles by Kjell Martin Moksnes
Electroconvulsive therapy without consent
- Kjell Martin Moksnes
15.10.2013:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used for more than 70 years to treat severe depression as well as rare conditions such as catatonia and manic delirium. The treatment is provided under short-term anaesthesia two or three times per week, frequently in a total of eight treatments in a series...
Relapse following electroconvulsive therapy
- Kjell Martin Moksnes
18.10.2011:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) normally has a rapid and beneficial effect and few acute side effects (1). Moderate to serious depression often recurs. In a study on elderly patients who had been successfully treated with antidepressants for recurrent depression, the relapse rate in the course of...
Electroconvulsive therapy – efficacy and side-effects
- Kjell Martin Moksnes,
- Stein Opjordsmoen Ilner
16.12.2010:
It has been documented for 70 years that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the acute treatment of major depression (1). The treatment is based on experience, and the mechanism of action has been uncertain, but recent research shows an increase in the nerve cell growth factor and in the...