Electroconvulsive therapy was associated with improvement of symptoms in those with mania, with higher response rates in those more seriously ill and without comorbid anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder, per a recently published study.
“Most guidelines recommend electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as a second-line treatment for mania,” Katarzyna Popiolek, MD, of the University Health Care Research Centre at the Örebro University in Sweden, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open. “However, prognostic factors associated with a good response to ECT in individuals with