English-Finnish translations for electroconvulsive therapy

• sähköshokkihoito
• sähköšokkihoito

Definition of electroconvulsive therapy

• A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Examples

• The therapeutic effects of low and high energy electroconvulsive therapies are quite different.

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