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Article Summary According to recent studies, Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) has been as an innovative method of inducing convulsive treatment in clients with mood disorder especially depression and bipolar with little or no side effect of cognitive impairment as compared to Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). However, the efficacy of ECT has been acknowledged as the management of mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorders. These disorders have been known to be incapacitating and prevailing ailments that have preceded an increased cost of treatments, suicide rates and substantial communal and financial obligations. Notwithstanding the efficiency of ECT, it has been associated with cognitive deficits, especially memory loss. The search for a better treatment necessitates the study of MST; possibly to lessen the side effects of memory deficits at the same time upholding ECT effectiveness (Cretaz, Brunoni, & Lafer, 2015)
Due to the invasive stimulation of electrical current to produce seizures in ECT, which lead to the severity of cognitive impairment, the non-invasive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was introduced. The TMS differs from ECT in that, it targets a specific region of the brain known as the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC). Nonetheless, the effectiveness of TMS is …show more content…

Even though, the review of the literature indicates several non-medicinal approaches for the treatment of mood disorder hence the PNP considers the challenges associated with compliance due to tolerability and acceptability of therapy. Although MST demonstrates a substantial benefit over ECT as it relates to cognitive impairment and the main flaw, further studies are required to improve the measurement of its prospective usefulness and enlarge present interpretation of its structure (Cretaz, Brunoni, & Lafer,

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