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Electroconvulsive therapy improves somatic symptoms before mood in patients with depression: a directed network approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2024

K. Hebbrecht*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Hospital KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Abstract

The recent network perspective of depression conceptualizes depression as a dynamic network of causally related symptoms, this in contrast with the traditional view of depression as a discrete latent entity that causes all symptoms. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe depression, but little is known about the temporal trajectories of symptom improvement during a course of ECT. We will present the results of a study that investigates the temporal trajectories of individual symptoms during treatment with ECT.

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