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Electroshock
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  • Doctors of Deception: What they Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment, by Linda Andre, Rutgers University Press, 2009.Doctors of Deception:  What They Don't Want You To Know About Electroshock  E-books from Rutgers University Press.
  • Review by Dr. Stefan Kruszewski in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine (2009) 171-173.
  •  A concise guide to electroshock: Indications, mode of action, risks, alternatives, by Peter Lehmann in Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 22, pp. 36-45 (2022).
  • Thelan v. Somatics.  A case in which the jury found Somatics, the manufacturer of the electroshock machine used on Jeffrey Thelan, failed to warn about the risks associated with its electroshock machine. 
  • ECT Resources Center from Peter R. Breggin M.D.
  • Depression: Why Drugs and Electricity Are Not the Answer, by John Read and Joanna Moncrieff, Psychological Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1-10 (2022)
  • Peter R. Breggin, MD, Expert Report in Riera et al. trial, April 13, 2021.
  • The Depression Files Interviews Electroshock Victim Sarah Price Hancock, July 25, 2021.
  • Physiological effect of electric current - WikiLectures
  • The Truth About Electroshock pamphlet.
  • International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE).
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Critical Perspective, by Niall McLaren, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 19: 91-104 (2017).
  • PsychRights and Committee for Truth in Psychiatry submission to FDA opposing reclassification of electroshock machines, March 25, 2016.
  • The Utmost Discretion: How Presumed Prudence Leaves Children Susceptible to Electroshock, by Cheryl van Daalen-Smith, Simon Adam, Peter Breggin, and Brenda A. LeFrancois, Children & Society VOLUME 28, (2014) pp. 205–217.
  • January 24, 2011, PsychRights letter to the Food and Drug Administration, re: Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0585-0001, Reclassification of Electroshock Machines.
  • Electroconvulsive therapy reduces frontal cortical connectivity in severe depressive disorder, by Jennifer S. Perrina, Susanne Merz, Daniel M. Bennett, James Currie, Douglas J. Steele, Ian C. Reid, and Christian Schwarzbauer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2012.
  • FDA Executive Summary Prepared for the January 27-28, 2011 meeting of the Neurological Devices Panel Meeting to Discuss the Classification of Electroconvulsive Therapy Devices (ECT)
  • The effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy:: A literature review, by John Read and Richard Bentall, epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale, 19: 4 (2010).
  • The FDA Should Test Safety of ECT Machines, by Peter R. Breggin, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 22:89-92 (2010).ECT Justice
  • The Cognitive Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Community Settings, Harold A Sackeim, Joan Prudic, Rice Fuller, John Keilp, Philip W Lavori and Mark Olfson, Neuropsychopharmacology (2007) 32, 244–254.  This study, which it says is the first of its kind despite the long-standing controversy over the brain damage caused by Electroshock found that it does indeed cause cognitive deficits.  "This study provides the first evidence in a large, prospective sample that adverse cognitive effects can persist for an extended period, and that they characterize routine treatment with ECT in community settings,"
  • Electroshock: scientific, ethical, and political issues, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 11 (1998) 5–40 5 IOS Press
  • Electroshock Quotationary, June 2006, by Leonard Roy Frank.
  • Medical Accountability Network's January 26, 2006, letter to Seton.
  • Memory and cognitive effects of ECT: informing and assessing patients, by Harold Robertson & Robin Pryor, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006), vol. 12, 228–238
  • There are links to many studies on Electroshock at http://www.ect.org/resources/studies.html.
  • Cognitive rehabilitation: assessment and treatment of persistent memory impairments following ECT, Maeve A. Mangaoang & Jim V. Lucey, Advances in Psychiatric Treatment vol 13, 90-100 (2007).
  • All-cause mortality among recipients of electroconvulsive therapy, by Trine Munk-Olsen, Thomas Munk Laursen, Poul Videbech, Preben Bo Mortensen and Raben Rosenberg, British Journal of Psychiatry, 190: 435-439 (2007).
  • Electroshock as a Form of Violence Against Women, by Bonnie Burstow, Violence Against Women, Val. 12, No. 4: 372-392 (2006)
  • Eliciting users' views of ECT in two mental health trusts with a user-designed questionnaire, by Michael Philpot, Cath Collins, Premila Trefeci, Adrian Treloar, Simon Gallacher, & Diana Rose, Journal of Mental Health, 12(4): 403-413 (2004).
  • December, 2003, Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP) Petition to Maintain the ECT Device in Class III.
  •  Effectiveness of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Community Settings, by Joan Prudic, Mark Olfson, Steven C. Marcus, Rice B. Fuller, and Harold A. Sackeim, Biological Psychiatry, 44-301-312 (2004).
  • Linda Andre's Bibliography on Electroshock.
  • Patients' perspectives on electroconvulsivetherapy: systematic review, by Bindman Diana Rose, Pete Fleischmann, Til Wykes, Morven Leese and Jonathan, British Medical Journal, 326.7403.1363, 2003;326;1363
  • The Brain Changes Associated with Electrical Shock Treatment: A Critical Review, by Bernard J. Alpers, MD, Lancet, 66 (1946), 363-369.
  • Autobiographical Amnesia with ECT: An Analysis of the Roles of Stimulus Wave Form, Electrode Placement, Stimulus Energy, and Seizure Length, Walter F. Daniel, Richard D. Weiner, and Herbert F. Crovitz, Received April 19, 1982, Revised July 24,1982, Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 18, No.1, 1983. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AAECTARSWFEPSESL.pdf
  • ECT and Minors: Social Sciences Solutions Will Reform the Psychiatric Abuse of Infants, Children and Adolescents, by Steve Baldwin and Melissa Oxlad, Social Sicences in Health 1996 (2)(3); 174.
  • Acetylcholine and Neuronal Activity,  I. Cholinesterase Patterns and Acetylcholine in the Cerebrospinal Fluids of Patients with Craniocerebral Trauma, by Donald B. Tower and Donald McEachern, Canadian Journal of Research. Vol. 27, Sec. E. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AcetylcholineNeuronalActvty.pdf
  • A Controlled Comparison of Simulated and Real ECT, by J. Lambourn and D. Gill, British Medical Journal, Volume 282, 31 January 1981. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/ACntrlldCmprsnSmltdRlECT.pdf
  • Acute memory impairment following electroconvulsive therapy, by W.F. Daniel and H.F. Crovitz, Veterans Administration Hospital (Medical Director: B.F. Brown), Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A., Acta psychiatr. Scand. 1983:67:1-7. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AcuteMmryImprmntFllwgECT.pdf
  • Chapter IV: Adverse Effects of ECT, Task Force Report 14, Electroconvulsive Therapy. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AdverseEffectsofECT.pdf
  • Clinical and Research Reports, Table 1. Age and Serum Cholesterol Levels of 192 Depressed and Normal Subjects, Am J Psychiatry 140:7, July 1983 http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AgrnlcytssAasctdwithAmxpn.pdf
  • The America Journal of the Medical Sciences, by E.B. Krumbhaar, M.D., Editor, Richard A. Kern, M.D., Wiliam C. Stadie, M.D., Assistant Editors.  New Series, Vol. 204. Lea & Febiger Philadelphia 1942. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AmrcnJrnlMdclScncs1942.pdf
  • Fear Reactions in Patients Receiving Electroshock Treatment and the Law of Initial Value, B.J. Bolin, Ph.D., Lexington, KY, American Journal of Psycholtherapy, Official Organ of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, by Stanley Lesse, M.D., Editor, Volume XXI, 1967. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AmrcnJrnlofPsychotherapy1967.pdf
  • An Institutional Program for Committed Sex Deviants, by Bernard A. Cruvant, M.D., Milton Meltzer, M.D., and Francis J. Tartaglino, M.D., Washington, D.C., http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/AnInstnlPrgrmCmmttdSxDvnts.pdf
  • Changes in the Brain After Electrically Induced Convulsions In Cats, by Bernard J. Alpers, M.D. and Joseph Hughes, M.D., Philadelphia, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Editorial Board, Tracy J. Putnam, Chief Editor, New York, Louis Casamajor, New York, S.W. Ranson, Chicago, Stanley Cobb, Boston, John Whitehorn, Baltimore, Adolf Meyer, Baltimore, Bernard J. Alpers, Philapelphia, Percival Bailey, Chicago, Wilder Penfield, Contributing Member, Montreal. Volume 47, 1942, Publishers American Medical Association, Chicago ILL. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/ArchvsNrlgyPsychtry1942.pdf
  • Times, April 89, p. 54, Readings and Reflections, by Frank J. Ayd, M.D. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/ArctclReadysReflctnsFAydApr89.pdf
  • An Eyewitness Account of the Discovery of Electroshock, by Ferdinando Accornero, Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Convulsive Therapy, 4(I):40-49, 1988 Raven Press, Ltd., New York. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/artclAnEyewitnessAcctDscvryECT.pdf
  • Blowing their Cover: Canadian victims take the CIA to court, by Anne Collins. http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/electroshock/PBregginCites/artclBlowngtheirCoverACollins.pdf
  • Canadian psychiatrists develop Beneficial Brain-Washing: Neurotics listen to long-playing records of their private fears under a new treatment called the “dynamic implant”, by Jacqueline Moore, http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclBnfclBrainWashingJMoore.pdf
  • Boosting Brain Activity From The Outside In: Stimulating the brain with magnetic fields in not only a useful research tool but can apparently a cognition and ease depression.  But exactly how it works is a bit of a mystery. 18 May 2001 Vol. 202, Science. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclBoostngBrainActvtyOutsdIn.pdf
  • Brainwashed compensated, by Stephen Bindman, Toronto Star, Southam News, Nov. 18, 1992. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclCanadaBrainwashingCompnsn.pdf
  • Canadian victims take the CIA to court, p. D1, Globe & Mail, October 1, 1988. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclCanadanvctmsCIAcourtOct88.pdf
  • Canada Will Pay Guinea Pigs of 50’s: Unwitting Recipients of Drug and Shock Treatments to Receive $80,000 Each, by Clyde H. Farnsworth, The New York Times. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclCanadawillpaygineapigs50s.pdf
  • Depression and Electroshock, National Affairs, Newsweek, August 7, 1972. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclDprssnECTNationalAffairs.pdf
  • The Long Struggle of Linda, by Bob Ross, Staff Writer, The Province, Sunday, March 17, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclLMacdonald1991.pdf
  • Canadians’ lawsuit in CIA brainwashing to begin this week, by Don Weitz, The Toronto Star, May 9, 1988. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclsCanadaCIAbrainwashng.pdf
  • A shameful payoff, by Don Weitz, The Toronto Star, Dec. 2, 1992.  Brainwash victims to get compensation, by Stephen Bindman, The Toronto Star, Nov. 18, 1992.  Cameron’s treatment best available at the time, by Dr. John M. Elder, Montreal Gazette, Feb. 8, 1993. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ArtclsCanadianBrainwashing.pdf
  • Drugs Tested by CIA on Mental Patients: Doucments Disclose Use in ’58 of LSD in Canadian Hospital, by Nicholas M. Horrock, New York Times, August 3, 1977. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclsCIAdrugtesting.pdf
  • Mulit-Monitored Electroconvulsive Therapy Held Safe, International Medical News Service, Clinical Psychiatry News, 4:6, June 1976, p.2. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclsClnclPsychtryNewsJun1976.pdf
  • Depression ‘Highly Treatable,’ doctors say, by Edward Edelson, New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, December 28, 1988. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclsECTdepressionTrtbl.pdf
  • The Fury of Shock Treatment A Patient’s View, by Elizabeth Wertz, The Washington Post/Potomac/December 10, 1972. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclTheFuryShockTrtmntPtntvw.pdf
  • Toronto public hearings on electroshock: Testimonies from ECT survivors – Review and content analysis, by Emmeline Froede and Steve Baldwin, School of Social Sciences, University of Teesside, UK, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 12 (1999) 181-192 IOS Press. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclTorontoElectroshock.pdf
  • Wiswall Hospital: Shock Therapy Abuse, by Anita Harris, B.A.D., Vol. VII/No.46/Three Sections/116 pages, November 14, 1972. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/artclWiswallHospitalSTA1972.pdf
  • The B.E.S.T In The Treatment And Control Of Chronically Disturbed Mental Patients-A Preliminary Report, by James A. Brussel, M.D. and Jacob Schneider, M.D., Psy. Quart. Vol.25-p.55-64, Jan. 1951. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/BESTTrtmntCntrlChrnclyDstrbdMP.pdf
  • Biophysical Mechanisms of Cell Membrane Damage in Electical Shock, by Raphael C. Lee, M.D., Sc.D., John N. Aarsvold, Ph.D., Wei Chen, Ph.D., R. Dean Astumian, Ph.D., Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, M.D., Kathleen M. Kelley, M.D., and Neil H. Pliskin, Ph.D., Seminars in Neurology-Volume 15, No. 4, December 1995. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/BphysclMchnsmCMDinElctrcShock.pdf
  • Brain Damage Info. Packet, 1-21. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/BrainDamageInfoPacket.pdf
  • Brain Damage From Nondominant ECT, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Bethesda, Md., Am J Psychiatry 143:10, October 1986, p1320-1. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/BrainDmgFromNndmnntECT.pdf
  • Brain Damage and Memory Loss From ECT, by Peter Sterling, Ph.D., Testimony prepared for the Standing Committee on Mental Health of the Assembly of the State of New York, October 5, 1978. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/BrnDmgandMmryLossfromECT1978.pdf
  • Can ECT Permanently Harm the Brain?, by Donald I. Templer and David M. Veleber, California School of Professional Psychology-Fresno, Clinical Neuropsychology/Volume IV, Number 2, pp. 62-66, 1982. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CanECT%20Pemntlybeharmful.pdf
  • Cognitive Functioning and Degree of Psychosis in Schizophrenics given many Electroconvulsive Treatments, by Donald I. Templer, Carol F. Ruff, and Gloria Armstrong, Am J. Psychiatry (1973), 183, 441-3. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CgngtvFnctngDgrPsychsShz.pdf
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences of Closed Head Injury, by Jerid M. Fisher, Ph.D., National Head Injury Foundation, Inc., Seminars in Neurology-Volume 5, Number 3, September 1985. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CgntvBhvrlCnsqncsClsdHdInjry.pdf
  • Editorial: The Cognitive Effects of ECT: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice, by Charles H. Kellner, M.D., Charleston, South Carolina, Convulsive Therapy, 12(3):133-135, 1996 Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CgntvEffctsECTBrdggGpBtnRsrhCP.pdf
  • Cognitive Functioning in Depressed Geriatric Patients With a History of ECT, by Helen M. Pettinati, Ph.D., and Kathryn M. Bonner, Am J Psychiatry 141:1, January 1984. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CgntvFnctngDrpsdGrtrcPnts.pdf
  • Cholinergic Aspects of Convulsive Therapy, by Max Fink, M.D., The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1966, Vol. 142, No.5. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ChlnrgcAspctsCnvlsvThrpy.pdf
  • Plaintiff’s Preliminary Pretrial Statement, Introduction, Mrs. David Orlikow, et al., v. USA, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 80-3163 (JGP), September 12, 1988. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/civilDOrlikowPretrialstatmnt.pdf
  • Combined Fluphenazine and ECT in Acute Schizophrenia, by Howard Alexander, M.D., Disease of the Nervous System, 1962. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CmbndFlpnznECTAcuteSchzrn.pdf
  • Comparison of Unilateral and Bilateral ECT: Evidence for Selective Memory Impairment, by D. Fromm-Auch, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1982), 141, 608-613. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CmprsnUnltrlBltrlECTEvdncSltMI.pdf
  • Concussing the Brain with Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy (ECT): An Appropriate Treatment for Depression and Suicidal Ideation?, by Boyles, G.J. (Nov. 1986) The Australian Clinical Psychologist, Vol. 18(2), 21-27. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CncssngBrainECTGJBoyles1986.pdf
  • Should ECT Be Prohibited?, Controversial Issues In Mental Health, Edited by Stuart A. Kirk, Susan D. Einbinder, by Allyn and Bacon 1994, http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CntrvslIssMntlHlthShldECTbePrh.pdf
  • Review Article: Convulsive Therapy – A Critical Appraisal of its Origins and Value, by Petr Skrabanek, Ph.D., Irish Medical Journal, June 1986, Volume 79, No. 6. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CnvlsvThrpyACAOIOAVlPSkrabanek.pdf
  • Controlled Trials of Electroconvulsive Therapy, by Timothy J. Crow and Eve C. Johnstone, Electroconvulsive Therapy: Clinical and Basic Research Issues, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1986. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ControlledTrialsECT.pdf
  • 84- Electroconvulsive Therapy, by David H. Avery, M.D., Current Psychiatric Therapy, by David L. Dunner, M.D., Outpatient Psychiatry Center for Anxiety and Depression 1993. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/CrntPsychtrcThrpyDDunner.pdf
  • Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Electroconvulsive Therapy (E.C.T.) and Simulated E.C.T. in Depressive Illness, by C.P.L. Freeman, J.V. Basson, and A. Crighton, The Lancet, April 8, 1978. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DblblndCntrlldTrlECTSmltdDI.pdf
  • Differential Memory Complaints After Bilateral and Unilateral ECT, by Joanne Rosenberg, M.S., and Helen M. Pettinati, Ph.D., Am J Psychiatry 141:9, September 1984.
  • http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DffrntlMmryCmplntsAftrBltrlUnl.pdf
  • Diseases of the Nervous System: A Practical Journal on Psychiatry and Neurology, Experimental Studies of the Electroshock Process, Max Fink, M.D., Robert L. Kahn, Ph.D., and Martin A. Green, M.D., National Medicine, March 1958. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DiseaseoftheNervousSystem1958.pdf
  • The Danger of Various Types of Medication During Electric Convulsive Therapy, The American Journal of Psychiatry. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DngrsVrsTypsMdctnDrngECT.pdf
  • Disabling the Brain with Electroshock, by Peter Roger Breggin, Divergent Views in Psychiatry, M. Dongier and E. Wittkower, Hagerstown, Md., 1981. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DsblgtheBrainwithElectrshock.pdf
  • Distinct memory impairments following electroconvulsive therapy and imipramine, by Avraham Calev, Edna Ben-Tzvi, Baruch Shapira, Heinz Drexler, Refael Carasso, and Bernard Lerer, From the Jerusalem Mental Health Center-Ezrat-Nashim Hospital, Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan Unversity, Ramat Gan, Israel, Psychological Medicine, 1989, 19, 111-119. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/DstnctMmryImpmntFlwgECTImpmn.pdf
  • Evaluation of the Central Nervous System Risks of ECT, by Richard D. Weiner, M.D., Ph.D., Helen J. Rogers, Ph.D., Jonathan Davidson, M.B., M.R.C. Psych., and Robert D. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., Psychopharmacology Bulletin: Vol. 18, No. 1, January 1982. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTAcuteOrgncBrnSyndrome.pdf
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy: Report of the Task Force on Electroconvulsive Therapy of the American Psychiatric Association, by Fred H. Frankel, M.B.Ch.B., T.George Bidder, M.D., Max Fink, M.D., Michel R. Mandel, M.D., Iver F. Small, M.D., George J. Wayne, Ph.D., M.D., Larry R. Squire, Ph.D., Consultant, Edward N. Dutton, M.D., Falk Fellow, Lee Gurel, Ph.D., Staff Liaison, May 1978, APA: Task Force Report 14. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTAmrcnPsychtrcAssc.pdf
  • ECT As A Form of Restraint, by J.J. Jeffries, M.B. and V.M. Rakoff, M.B., Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 28, December 1983. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTasaformofRestraint1983.pdf
  • ECT-Ban Controversy, by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Bethesda, Md., Clinical Psychiatry News, March, 1983. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTBanControversy.pdf
  • ECT Benefit Outweighs Risk in Most Cases, by Dr. Abrams, Clinical Psychiatry News, June 1984. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTBnftOutwghsRskMostCases1984.pdf
  • Cognitive Functioning and Degree of Psychosis in Schizophrenics given many Electroconvulsive Treatments, by Donald I. Templer, Carol F. Ruff, and Gloria Armstrong, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1973), 123, 441-3. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTBrainDamage.pdf
  • Electroconvulsive Shock and Brain Muscarinic Receptors: Relationship to Anterograde Amnesia, by B. Lerer, M. Stanley, I. McIntyre, and H. Altman, Pergamon Press, Life Sciences, Vol. 35, pp.2659-2664, October 16, 1984. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTBrainMscrncRcptrsRltnshpAA.pdf
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy: Clinical and Basic Research Issues, by Sidney Malitz and Harold A. Sackeim, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 462, 1986. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTClinicalBasicRsrchIssues.pdf
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy and Complaints of Memory Dysfunction: A Prospective Three-Year Follow-up Study, by Larry R. Squire and Pamela C. Slater, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1983) 142, 1-8. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTCmplntsMmryDysfctnAPTFS.pdf
  • ECT: Controversies and Consensus, Massachusetts General Hospital Newsletter, Biological Therapies in Psychiatry, Volume 8, Number 8, August 1985. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTcntrvssandcnsnssAug1985.pdf
  • ECT Death Chronology (Additions to “Chronology” in History of Shock Treatment, 1978), by Leonard Roy Frank, 28 March 1995. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTDeathChronology1978.pdf
  • ECT Hearing Testimony 11/27/90, by Wade Hudson. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECThearingWHudsonTestimony.pdf
  • ECT: III: Enduring Cognitive Defecits?, by D. Weeks, C.P.L. Freeman and R.E. Kendell, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1980), 137, 26-37. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTIIIEndrgCgntvDfcts1980.pdf
  • ECT: II: Patients who Complain, by C.P.L. Freeman, D. Weeks, and R.E. Kendell, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1980), 137, 17-25. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTIIPatientswhoComplain.pdf
  • ECT-Induced Hyperactive Delirium and Brain Laterality, by Walter F. Daniel, B.A., Durham, N.C., Letters to the Editor, Am J Psychiatry 142:4, April 1985. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTIndcdHyprctvDlrmBrnLtrlty.pdf
  • ECT Info. Packet, 1-24, http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTInfoPacket.pdf
  • ECT in Pregnancy, Lothar B. Kalinowsey, M.D., New York, N.Y., Letter to the Editor, Am J Psychiatry 141:12, December 1984. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTinPregnancy.pdf
  • ECT: I. Patients’ Experiences and Attitudes, by C.P.L. Freeman and R.E. Kendell, Brit. J. Psychiat. (1980), 137, 8-16. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTIPtntsExprncsAttds1980.pdf
  • ECT: Is It Unsafe and Ineffective?, by Edward M. Opton, Jr., Ph.D., J.D., 1985 Concensus Conference. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTisitUnsafeandIneffective1.pdf
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy and Its Effect on Memory, Abstract of Frith CD, Stevens M, Johnstone EC, Deakin JFW, Lawler P, Crow TJ: Effects of ECT and depression on various aspects of memory.  Brit. J Psychiatry 142:610-617, 1983. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTitsEffectsonMemory.pdf
  • Refline, Frith CD; Stevens M: JOhnstone EC; Deakin JF; and others.  Effects of ECT and depression on various aspects of memory, Br J Psychiatry 1983, Jun; 142:610-7. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/ECTMemoryLossRefline.pdf
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  • The Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy on Memory of Autobiographical and Public Events, by Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, Jill H. Maddox, BA, Joan Prudic, MD, D.P. Devanand, MD, Harold A. Sackeim, PhD.  Arch Gen Psychiatry. June 2000;57:581-590. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/EffctsECTMmryAtbgphclPlcEvnts.pdf
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  • Where is the justice in Kim Cambell’s decision?, by Geoffrey Stevens, The Toronto Star, Sunday, March 17, 1991. http://www.psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/PBregginCites/KCambellDecisionArctcle1991.pdf
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