On the other hand, Scott (2006) suggested that
other non-memory side effects of ECT, such as those
affecting general IQ, language, perception, manual
dexterity and attention, ‘usually do not exceed the
effects of depression, when modern methods of
ECT administration… are used. Following ECT, these
functions progressively improve. At one week to
seven months after ECT, performance is better than
before ECT, probably because of the alleviation of
both the effects of depression and of ECT’.