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Baseline cognition did not affect depression outcomes following ECT, according to findings published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Baseline cognition did not affect depression outcomes following ECT, according to findings published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Both questionnaires were sent by email to the relevant psychiatric centers in early January 2020. Centers that failed to reply after 6 weeks were sent a second email and were contacted by telephone to ascertain if they had received the questionnaires. After 4 more weeks, centers that had not responded were phoned again, to repeat the request for information. At this time, the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic broke out and some of these units were transformed into treatment facilities for psychiatric COVID-1...