Depression is one of the most common comorbidities of many chronic medical diseases
including cancer and cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and neurological disorders …

Importance Whether ketamine is as effective as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) among
patients with major depressive episode remains unknown. Objective To systematically …

Objective: To familiarize the reader with the role of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in
current psychiatric medicine. Method: We review clinical indications for ECT, patient …

Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a biopsychosocial disorder that affects individuals who
have suffered a stroke at any point. PSD has a 20 to 60 percent reported prevalence among …

Importance Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is indicated for severe depression, including
depression with psychosis, catatonia, and/or an elevated suicide risk. However, the …

Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a well‐established treatment for psychiatric
disorders, including depression and psychosis. ECT has been reported to be effective in …

Electroconvulsive therapy is the most effective treatment for severe, psychotic or treatment-
resistant depression. However, its effectiveness continues to be questioned, both in …

Over the last years, the decreased costs and enhanced accessibility to large genome-wide
association studies datasets have laid the foundations for the development of polygenic risk …

There is a strong medical need to develop suitable biomarkers to improve the diagnosis and
treatment of depression, particularly in predicting response to certain therapeutic …

The Committee for Treatment Guidelines of Mood Disorders, Japanese Society of Mood
Disorders, published a Japanese guideline for the treatment of late‐life depression in 2020 …