ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2017
Potential Mechanisms Underlying the Therapeutic Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Epigenetic and blood markers associated with response to electroconvulsive therapy in patients with depressive disorders.Translational psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Electroconvulsive therapy, electric field, neuroplasticity, and clinical outcomes.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Trial
- Does the Loss of Autobiographical Memories Contribute to the Therapeutic Effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy?Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2026Article
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- Electroconvulsive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: clinical efficacy and predictive role of inflammatory markers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Electroconvulsive therapy modulates loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials: a pilot MEG study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Bipolar mania and epilepsy pathophysiology and treatment may converge in purine metabolism: A new perspective on available evidence.Neuropharmacology · 2023Review
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- Genome-Environment Interactions and Psychiatric Disorders.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- A systematic mini-review of epigenetic mechanisms associated with electroconvulsive therapy in humans.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Synaptic Plasticity 101: The Story of the AMPA Receptor for the Brain Stimulation Practitioner.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2022Review
- Electroconvulsive stimulation attenuates chronic neuroinflammation.JCI insight · 2020Article
- Electroconvulsive Therapy for Patients with Catatonia: Current Perspectives.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Review
- Hippocampal-subregion functional alterations associated with antidepressant effects and cognitive impairments of electroconvulsive therapy.Psychological medicine · 2019Article
- [Ethics, evidence and electroconvulsive therapy].Der Nervenarzt · 2018Article
- Is Electroconvulsive Therapy a Treatment for Depression Following Traumatic Brain Injury?Innovations in clinical neuroscience · 2018Article
- Updated Review on the Clinical Use of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Psychiatric Disorders.Neuroscience bulletin · 2017Review
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Abstract
In spite of the extensive application of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), how it works remains unclear. So far, researchers have made great efforts in figuring out the mechanisms underlying the effect of ECT treatment via determining the levels of neurotransmitters and cytokines and using genetic and epigenetic tools, as well as structural and functional neuroimaging. To help address this question and provide implications for future research, relevant clinical trials and animal experiments are reviewed.
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