Erin Allman‑Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Because then I'll be able to kind of like long way get to that question.

Okay.

So the electrodes are placed, uh, there's a few different ways that you can place the electrodes.

You in most of the like media representations, the electrodes are placed on the temples, on both of them.

So kind of like if you draw an imaginary line from the corner of your eyes back to your ears, it's kind of midway along that line, just above it, in right on your temples.

And that is kind of old school standard placement, still used quite often, um, but not necessarily the first.

line treatment option for a lot of people in the US today, but that's a perfectly decent option.

Um, sometimes instead of being on the temporal, people will put them bifrontal, so like on the forehead, kind of like outer corners of the eyebrows.

Okay.

But there's also another option, and that is right unilateral placement.

And so this means that you'll have one electrode on the right side in that same like temporal position, and then the other one just to the right of the very top of your skull, right at the apex there.

A lot of times we start with this right lobe only, right unilateral placement, because it's associated with a lower risk of side effects.

However, it tends to also be slightly less effective than bilateral placement.

The reason that they chose initially to do right rather than left is because for most people, like 98% of right-handed people and 70 to 90% of left-handed people, our language function is all on the left temporal lobe.

So the thought was that maybe there would be less side effects, especially with language, um, if we avoid direct current to that left temporal lobe.

But so the right foot, uh, d regardless of the position of those electrodes, is a place that you can easily isolate and is going to still have motor activity regardless of where I mean, really you should have motor activity anywhere.

So I think right foot is just like that has become the standard of where you do it.

It could be the left foot.

Sometimes people will use the arm if they have to.

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