convulsive therapy electroconvulsive therapy http://homosaurus.org/v2/electroshockTherapy http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDDRA/10014404 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D004565 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/23835007 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy https://homosaurus.org/terms/electroshockTherapy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131543 A procedure in which a series of short duration electric currents are passed via electrodes through the brain to cause a controlled seizure for the purpose of treating severe, intractable forms of mental conditions, including depression, mania, and catatonia. ECT Electrically induced convulsions primarily used in the treatment of severe affective disorders and schizophrenia. Use of electroconvulsive therapy has been considered extremely controversial due in part to its crude, early, and involuntary usage in asylums. Additionally, electroconvulsive therapy has been, mostly historically, used in attempts to painfully "convert" gay persons to heterosexuality and transgender persons to being cisgender (despite a lack of evidence of the possibility or efficacy of such a process). electric convulsive therapy electroconvulsive therapies electroshock therapy