Electroconvulsive Therapy

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This paper presents a critique of a paper describing the use of electroconvulsive therapy for adolescents with severe mood disorders. It makes the case for using the therapy and presents some parameters which should be followed to guide its use.

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"This paper looks at the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in adolescents with severe mood disorders. The paper begins with a short introduction followed by an executive summary, which is repeated again later in the paper in an expanded form after the literature review in a version which is about half as long again as the executive summary. The executive summary does not seem to be much of a summary being as long as it is and seems superfluous since it is hardly any shorter than the full body..."

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