| Abstract: | 30 female and 10 male depressive inpatients at a state hospital participated in 2 studies comparing electrosleep (cerebral electrotherapy) and placebo treatments. In both studies, differences between self-rated improvement associated with cerebral electrotherapy and placebo were not significant. It is concluded that clinical use of cerebral electrotherapy with hospitalized depressives should be tempered by the finding of the present and other studies that cerebral-electrotherapy-related improvement appears to be due in large part to positive expectation or placebo effects. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
