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a treatment for psychiatric disorders using passage of an electric current through the brain via scalp electrodes, conditions being such as to produce a tonic phase similar to that of electroconvulsive therapy but limited or absent convulsions; it is both less effective and more likely to cause side effects than is electroconvulsive therapy.
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