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Positive jolt: electroshock therapy may have side benefit.(This Week)

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| May 28, 2005 | Seppa, Nathan | COPYRIGHT 2009 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

People with depression have high concentrations of norepinephrine, a nervous system hormone that signals blood vessels to constrict and ratchets up blood pressure, researchers report. Treating these individuals with electroshock therapy lowers their norepinephrine concentrations-and their heart rate and blood pressure too, scientists find.

A fast pulse, vessel constriction, and high blood pressure are valuable tools in a person's fight-or-flight response. But if high norepinephrine concentrations chronically Keep a person in that state, it puts a strain on the heart, says Mitchel A. Kling, a psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.…

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