Talk:Electroconvulsive therapy

I think something about the history has to be in the beginning paragraphs, for there will be many people not having the least idea when it became available--I can imagine they might guess anyway from 1800 to 1960. It would also be useful to say about when the various key improvements came about.

There are of course, many other fictional and real examples. An interest one is Nash; because of his intellectual stature, there were great efforts by his family & friends to prevent ECT being used and it wasn't. Instead they used insulin shock; am I right that it has very similar effects? Probably it would be useful to indicate not only that 30% even today have persistant memory loss, but what proportion have profound memory loss--the material available to laymen tends to underplay this.

But undoubtedly you've thought of all this, DavidGoodman 22:50, 1 November 2006 (CST)