electroconvulsive therapyin a sentence
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Today, electroconvulsive therapy is usually performed under full anesthesia after administration of a muscle relaxant.
electroconvulsive therapy = psychiatric treatment that passes electricity through the brain to induce an artificial seizure
- Drugs, radiation, electroshock, surgery.† (source)
- "You remind me of my wife," Len said after a long silence, during which my mother had drawn an orange poodle and what looked like a blue horse undergoing electroshock treatment.† (source)
- So was electroshock, I reminded them.† (source)
- You can see where they strapped down the crazies and gave them electroshock.† (source)
- We watched Cynthia come back crying from electroshock once a week.† (source)
- He knew from Professor Reyes's class that they used to administer electroshock therapy to homosexuals in order to "cure" them.† (source)
- The earliest kids they had brought in, the first guinea pigs, had been subjected to a whole array of electroshock and brain-chop-shop terrors.† (source)
- And this way we all passed through a month or two, Lisa and the catatonics in the TV room, Polly walking like a motorized corpse, Cynthia crying after electroshock ("I'm not sad," she explained to me, "but I can't help crying"), and me and Georgina in our double suite.† (source)