For which disorder was electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) originally developed as a treatment?

A) panic
B) schizophrenia
C) bipolar disorder
D) cyclothymia

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Form of biomedical therapy to treat severe depression in which electrodes are placed on either one or both sides of a person’s head and an electric current is passed through the electrodes that is strong enough to cause a seizure or convulsion.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.