Sunday, 12 July 2020, the United Kingdom's Daily Mail Publishes a story entitled "Ban 'Cuckoo's Nest' electric shock therapy for depression, patients plead - as critics warn potential side-effects include memory loss and sight problems."

Highlights of the story:

Electro-convulsive therapy has been used to treat mania and schizophrenia 40 opponents of the treatment have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock ECT's effect were portrayed in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ministers are facing calls to order an inquiry into a ‘primitive’ treatment for depression that involves passing electric currents through the brain.

Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) has been used for almost a century to treat an array of psychiatric disorders including mania, catatonia and schizophrenia.

But critics say evidence supporting its use is poor, while its potential side effects including memory loss, sight problems and trauma can be debilitating.

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