Electroconvulsive therapy induces neurogenesis in frontal rat brain areas.

Electroconvulsive therapy induces neurogenesis in frontal rat brain areas.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective therapy for several psychiatric disorders, including severe major depression, mania and certain forms of schizophrenia. It had been proposed that ECT acts by modulating local plasticity via the stimulation of neurogenesis. In fact, among antidepressant...

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Main Authors: Dragos Inta, Juan M Lima-Ojeda, Thorsten Lau, Wannan Tang, Christof Dormann, Rolf Sprengel, Patrick Schloss, Alexander Sartorius, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Peter Gass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3724733?pdf=render

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