Journal of International Psychiatry

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly effective for patients with strong sense of suicide, extreme excitement, or catatonic symptoms. However, its potential cognitive impairment has been a barrier in the way of widely use. There’s a lot of research about kind, duration, and influences of cognitive impairment following ECT, but the results of whom are inconsistent with each other. Some studies have indicated that the cognitive impairment is temporary, while some are the opposite. Despite the factors of ECT and patients, evaluation also has an impact on these results. So this article summarizes available national and international literature regarding ECT-related cognitive impairment in ten years, and focus on the influences of assessment point and evaluation tools.

ECT；Cognition； Memory