Erin Allman‑Updyke
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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And for some people, it's
It might even be that they have continuation or maintenance therapy where they kind of taper it down so it's no longer three days a week, maybe it's twice a week and then once a week, maybe it's once a month.
But in general, it's quite rapid acting, especially compared to so many other therapies that we have.
We usually see substantial improvement in symptoms within the first few sessions.
So within the first couple of weeks.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay, let's get into it.
Yeah.
Um, of course, the short answer to how does this work is that we still don't really know.
We don't really know.
And that's in part because we don't know the biological mechanisms of so many of these disorders that we can treat with ECT.
Right.
But that doesn't mean we don't have hypotheses.
There are a few main hypotheses as to how ECT works in our brains.
The first is that we see
Substantial increases and changes in a bunch of our neurotransmitters.
These are friends that we know well from other episodes like dopamine, serotonin, et cetera.
We also see big changes in GABA, which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter.
And what's interesting about GABA is that we think, well, maybe this is just like a neurotransmitter effect, but also GABA is involved in seizures.
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