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Why Does Electroshock Therapy Work? Scientists May Have Solved a Century-Old Mystery (scitechdaily.com)
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In these two new studies a new hypothesis for explaining the effectiveness of ECT as a treatment for depression symptoms proposes that ECT alleviates symptoms by increasing aperiodic activity, a type of electrical activity in the brain that doesn’t follow a consistent pattern and is generally considered to be the brain’s background noise.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02631-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02634-9

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[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

So… the relays are bad?