In the other two studies any advantage for ECT over SECT had disappeared by the time of the first post-treatment assessment, at four weeks (Brandon et al., 1985; Taylor & Fleminger, 1980). Moreover, the Taylor & Fleminger study found that after four weeks the ECT group gradually deteriorated while the SECT group continued to improve, a pattern that was continuing 16 weeks after treatment. Similarly, Brandon et al. found that eight weeks after treatment ECT recipients had deteriorated on three of the four measures, but the SECT group continued to improve, overtaking the real ECT group on all four measures within two to six weeks. In this last study, improvements are graphically represented by change scores, thereby obscuring possible group differences at the outset. In fact, substantial baseline differences between the two groups can be discerned from the tables with, for example, the ECT groups scoring a mean of 9 (range 3-16) and the SECT group a mean of 12 (7-18) on the Montgomery-Asberg Schizophrenia Scale.