Electroconvulsive Therapy: Stayin’ Alive, Stayin’ Well

In the current issue of Acta, there are three new publications with data about staying well, or not, in the 6- to 12-month period after successful index courses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).1-3 Jelovac et al. show no difference in 12-month relapse rates between patients treated with right unilateral versus bilateral ECT in a secondary analysis of data from the EFFECT-Dep trial; Lambrichts et al. and Methfessel et al. show that withholding...