Study On The Cognition Of Depression Disorder Before And After ECT

Electroconvusive therapy(ECT) is an effective method of treatment in psychiatric department. The mechanism of ECT is unknown but it is especially effective to the diseases such as major depression, delusional depression, bipolar disorder, manic delirium, schizophrenia, malignant catatonia, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. In civil the study on the cognition of ECT is scare and its side effect on the cognition is ignored because of its safety fastness and effectiveness on the treatment of psychiatric diseases. The criteria of ECT is not united and its effect on the cognition is different . The process of cognition is a complex theory and it can be reflected by some different method. In the study patients with major depression were treated with a right unilateral, brief pulse, square-wave stimulus, dose titration ECT . Before and after a course of 6 times ECT Clinical Memory Score and Reaction Time were tested.The results are showed below:1. There proves no difference between the sexes and years of educationbefore and after the course of treatment tested by the Clinical Memory Score and Reaction Time.2. The result tested by Clinical Memory Score and Reaction Time showedECT has negative effect on the cognition of target memory and image characteristic recall, but it has positive effect on learning.3. The change of cognition has no relation with convulsive duration minimum voltage illness duration and age.