Links: Electroconvulsive Therapy

Journal of ECT: Ovid full text (Access restrictions may apply). Publisher's site
Official Journal of the Association for Convulsive Therapy

Journal references from PubMed: 

• Electroconvulsive therapy. Current citations
• ECT and depression
• ECT and memory
• ECT and patient or public perceptions
• ECT and the elderly

 Other resources

• Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS). College Research Unit, The Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
• Scottish ECT Audit Network
• 2009. Neurostimulation therapies. Part IV of the CANMAT guidelines for major depressive disorder 
• 2009. Electroconvulsive therapy manual: licensing, legal requirements and clinical practice guidelines. Victorian Government Department of Human Services
• 2008. Electroconvulsive therapy review guidelines. Office of Mental Health, New York
• 2007. Clinical effectiveness and cost of rTMS versus ECT in severe depression
• 2005. Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia. [Cochrane Review abstract] P Tharyan, CE Adams. Updated February 16, 2005
• 2005. The ECT handbook. 2nd ed. [PDF, 256 pages] Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
• 2003. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Guidance page from NICE 
• 2003. Role of the registered psychiatric nurse in the administration of electroconvulsive therapy. 2003. [PDF, 17 pages] College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC
• 2002. Electroconvulsive therapy guidelines for health authorities in British Columbia.  [PDF, 151 pages] Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation Unit
• 1985. Electroconvulsive therapy. NIH Consensus Statement. 1985 Jun 10-12; 5(11):1-23
• Electroconvulsive therapy. Position paper of the Canadian Psychiatric Association   

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