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Is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Safe And Helpful For The Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder?

William McDonald, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, The Emory Clinic
April 29, 2008

Question: Is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) safe and helpful for the treatment of bipolar disorder?

Answer: Patients with bipolar disorder can have either mania or depression. An ECT is effective in both. ECT can treat patients in a manic phase and cause them to go back to a normal state, as well as in a depressed phase. So ECT is very effective in the treatment of bipolar disorder both for the manic and the depressed phase.

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