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*How ECT helps severely depressed** * *Aberdeen researchers have discovered how a controversial but effective treatment in psychiatry acts on the brain in people who are severely depressed.*  [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/images/ABC_7919_copy_rdax_800x533.jpg] [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/images/UoA_pic2_rdax_461x600.jpg] Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT - which involves anaesthetising a patient and electrically inducing a seizure - is the most...

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