background: lennox-gastaut syndrome (lgs) is an epileptic encephalopathy, characterized by drug-resistant multiple seizure types. the aim of this study was to determine if the adjunctive use of electroconvulsive therapy (ect) in patients with lgs and drug-resistant epilepsy is efficacious in decreasing their seizure frequency and also to investigate its safety and tolerability.   methods: this ...

Introduction Sleep deprivation and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) effectively ameliorate symptoms in major depressive disorder (MDD). In rodents, both are associated with an enhancement of cerebral adenosine levels, which turn likely influence adenosinergic receptor expression. The aim the current study was to investigate A 1 (A AR) availability patients MDD as a potential mediating factor ant...

Soundscape composition in improvisation and performance contexts involves many processes that can become overwhelming for a performer, impacting on the quality of the composition. One important task is evaluating the mood of a composition for evoking accurate associations and memories of a soundscape. We present a new system called Impress that uses supervised machine learning for the acquisiti...

background: the electrical dose selected for electroconvulsive therapy (ect) must have an acceptable efficacy and no or minimal cognitive side-effects. we evaluated the clinical efficacy and cognitive side-effects of ect in relation to the stimulus dose administered.   method: this study assessed 71 depressed patients who were treated with bilateral ect. for evaluation of depressive and cogniti...

objective: in electrochemotherapy (ect), there is an unpleasant sensation of muscle contraction when using a low frequency (1 hz). therefore, by increasing the pulse frequency above the tetanic frequency this painful sensation can be reduced. the aim of the present study is to compare the treatment efficiencies of low and high frequency ect, and estimate the effect of its repeated sessions. mat...