Erin Allman‑Updyke
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549 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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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.
Let's say you don't have a right foot or something like that.
You can use something else.
Um
Okay.
Okay.
I guess I didn't really need to answer the placement question.
No, but it was
gonna ask that question.
So the seizure threshold means
the lowest amount of electricity that's going to give you a seizure.
How we determine what that seizure threshold is kind of depends on where you're going to be getting ECT and how they're going to do it.
There are like age-based guesstimates that we can use.
The other thing that you can do to try and estimate it is to start with a really low charge and then go up in increments until you get to a seizure, and then you know, okay, the threshold was somewhere in between the the most lowest that didn't do it and then this one that did.
But the key actually is that we're not just hitting that seizure threshold.
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