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2 Electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment
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1Latonia SmithApril 22, 2016Professor Jean Gardner
2Electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for mental illnessFor over a century, neuroscience and psychiatry have been trying to comprehend this diseasesof the brain, amongst them the mental disorder named schizophrenia. It has been tough to explain this erratic disease, and even more problematic to medically treat and control it. Whatis known about schizophrenia is that it is not a “split personality” condition as is commonly and mistakenly believed. People living with a name to this Schizophrenia, do not become other people or switch in and out of character, like something out of a Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde movie.Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century scientists and doctors looked at the mentally ill patients differently and studied their behaviour, looked at the family history, and delved into problems life was handing them. They realized that they needed to be studying and analyzingthe brain. “Psychoanalysis predominated until the 1970s, which was followed by renewed interest in genetic, biochemical and neuropathological causes of mental disorder which came to be known as biological psychiatry”(Mathews, n.d.).Biological treatments for mental illness have a long history, at one time some treatment could be helpful one way is Prefrontal Lobotomy, this is “the surgical destruction of brain tissue connecting the prefrontal lobes with other areas of the brain” (Hansell & Damour, 2008) another way is Insulin Coma, this is “the deliberate induction of a seizure and coma using insulin; formerly used to treat certain mental disorders” (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Insulin coma still plays a role today, with severe cases of depression a treatment called
