Erin Allman‑Updyke
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first heard Sep 2026
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ECT is one of the most effective treatments that we have for severe affective disorders, among other things.
And we've come so far in how this procedure is done, how we do informed consent for it, the safety of this procedure.
It's incredibly safe.
And it has the potential for substantial side effects.
All of that is true all at the same time.
Yeah.
We also don't use it as much as we could.
Um for a lot of reasons.
Cost, especially in the US, access, especially in the US.
Um, you're much more likely to get access to ECT as an option if you have private insurance or Medicare than if you're on Medicaid or Medical.
Which is just all medical things in general.
It's so many things.
Yeah.
Um, we don't have really great numbers on like how many people really get ECT worldwide every year, but in a lot of papers it'll be like maybe one, one and a half, two percent of people with severe depression who actually got ECT, which I think is really interesting.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So it's pretty low percentage wise.
It's interesting because you mentioned, Erin, that in it was the 1950s that it became standard to do ECT under anesthesia and with muscle relaxants.
But there was a paper from 2012 that noted that in some parts of the world, ECT is still done, uh, what's called unmodified.
So without anesthesia and without muscle relaxers, which I think is
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