ECT is not considered for garden-variety depression. If it's more refractory, if other treatments have failed or it's suicidal depression and you don't have time to wait around to see if a medication is going to work, it's considered the gold standard of treatment.

Electroconvulsive therapy is not considered for garden-variety depression. If it's more refractory, if other treatments have failed or it's suicidal depression, and you don't have time to wait around to see if a medication is going to work, it's considered the gold standard of treatment.

The FDA is a cautious regulatory body, and they need to be cautious.

The FDA is a cautious regulatory body, and they need to be cautious. On the other hand, it can cause hysteria because people take it to be cause-and-effect. They don't really understand that they (the FDA) are warning us there may be a correlation.

Symptoms of SAD are a little different from depression.

If you have depression and you're 45, waiting six months may have some impact, but it won't likely have that big an impact. If you're three years old and you have a serious developmental issue, six months is a huge loss of your brain not putting it together.