Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore - 560 029, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2010 Jan;52(Suppl 1):S362-5. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.69268.
The contribution of researchers from India in the field of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been substantial. Over 250 papers have been published by authors from India in the past five decades on this issue; about half of these have appeared in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry. This article summarizes the papers on ECT research that have appeared in the Journal. A bulk of these articles has focused on establishing the efficacy in different disorders. Considerable numbers of papers describe refinement in the ECT procedure, including anesthetic modification, ECT machine and EEG monitoring. Papers on neurobiology of ECT and long-term follow-up of ECT-treated patients form a minority. Despite the decline in the use of ECT across the globe, papers on ECT have only increased in the recent decades in the Journal.
印度研究人员在电痉挛疗法(ECT)领域的贡献是巨大的。在过去的五十年中,有 250 多篇论文由来自印度的作者发表,其中约有一半发表在《印度精神病学杂志》上。本文总结了该杂志上发表的关于 ECT 研究的论文。其中大部分文章都集中在不同疾病的疗效上。相当数量的论文描述了 ECT 程序的改进,包括麻醉修改、ECT 机和 EEG 监测。ECT 的神经生物学和接受 ECT 治疗的患者的长期随访方面的论文则较少。尽管全球范围内 ECT 的使用有所减少,但该杂志上关于 ECT 的论文在最近几十年却有所增加。