Shock Values
Depression, by the numbers.
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15-20
Percentage of depressed American adults who do not respond to more advanced pharmaco- and psychotherapy
1938
Year the first patient with a mental disorder was treated with electroshock
25
Percentage of medical students in a 2002 study who, after watching the portrayal of electroconvulsive therapy in five movies, said they would dissuade a relative or friend from undergoing the treatment
2
Centimeters rTMS penetrates through the skull to the prefrontal cortex
4
Minimum number of raditional treatments (antidepressants or ECT) that must fail to work for a patient before a physician can consider vagus nerve stimulation, as stipulated by the FDA
8
Number of years that VNS has been in use for treatment-resistant depression
30
Estimated number of patients who have been treated with deep brain stimulation in ongoing international pilot studies
