A New study entitled "Outcome prediction of electroconvulsive therapy for depression" show that ECT does not reliably work on people who did not respond to medication. This is a critical point because psychiatrists who promote ECT say that ECT is the best treatment option for people who do not respond to medication. 

In other words, again we have a study which demonstrates if medication doesn't work, then ECT will not work either.

This is the second time psychiatry has proven ECT is not an effective way to treat mental illness. The previous study was conducted more than a decade ago by Harold Sackeim. He wrote in a letter to the editor, in defense of ECT saying that 91% of people who didn't respond to medication will relapse within 10 days. His solution was to give "maintenance ECT" which is a medical term for giving ECT in perpetuity. This is made possible because Medicare and Medicaid have no limits on the number of ECT treatments given to a patient in a month, quarter, year or lifetime. 

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