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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the effective and life-saving treatment modality used in psychiatry for a long time because it responds more rapidly than pharmacological treatment. ECT is used safely in treatment-resistant depression, and in psychiatric disorders such as mania,
Purpose and Background
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder with a constellation of positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Negative symptoms can include characteristics such as affective flattening, avolition, and alogia. Positive symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, and
Primary Goal: The goal of this research is investigating the heart rate changes in schizophrenic and bipolar patients under the medication of aripiprazole and quetiapine. As we known, clozapine, an antipsychotic, could cause fatal cardiac arrhythmia; in previous reports showed fatal rate about 0.7%,