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An odd EM wave
A memoir of Engineering Persistence and Human Discovery
Reminiscences on the human dimension of an engineering career.
Charts an unconventional engineering career spanning multiple continents and decades, offering insights rarely found in traditional engineering literature.
It starts at the age of 15 on a building site in England and ends, as described by a reviewer, as a distinguished engineer
A reviewer describes it as both heart warming and heart breaking.
It serves as an inspiration and a practical roadmap.
D. A. Weston
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When I worked for the Medical Research Council Neuropsychiatric Research Unit I worked on alternative drug treatments for depression. My mother had depression and the MRC NRU took her in for treatment. She had Lithium and Monoamine Oxidise Inhibitors with no improvement. It was only after three doses of ECT that she improved, so that after the treatments she was only slightly manic. Along with all other patients she could not remember the administration of the ECT. I saw patients who were in a catatonic stupor, not communicating and rocking backwards and forwards and after treatments perfectly normal.
The 1975 film one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, where a rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation in 1963 Oregon, and encourages his docile companions to take more control of their lives and defy the tyrannical head nurse was critical of ECT and so put it out of favor.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial and misunderstood treatments for mental illness. One report states that it is safe and effective for treating severe depression when patients have symptoms that haven’t responded to medication, counselling or other psychosocial treatments.
There have been conflicting reports that different methods of application of the shocks has reduced the affect on memory. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2006 states that over the past few years electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has come under increased scrutiny in the UK, with the first systematic review of patients’ experiences and new national guidelines. The aim of the article is to translate recent and sometimes confusing research and policy statements into practical guidance that benefits patients. We examined the evidence on the permanent memory and cognitive effects of ECT, with a focus on delineating their nature, understanding how ECT may cause them, informing prospective patients about them, and assessing their impact on former patients. We describe a simple and effective method for assessing retrograde amnesia. Data do not exist at this time to confirm the mechanisms by which ECT exerts its adverse effects, but clinicians should fully inform patients of the possible a design for permanent adverse effects of the treatment, which include amnesia, memory disability and cognitive disability, and should provide follow-up testing using relevant instruments. Transcutaneous Magnetic Stimulation, a design for which is included in the memoir, is hoped to be an effective treatment with no side effects.
West park mental hospital where the MRC NRU ward was loacated
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