2025 International Online Course on ECT: Introduction to Modern ECT Practice
At the 2025 Brain Stimulation Conference in Kobe, Japan, SigmaStim hosted a workshop called, The Introduction to Modern ECT Practice. That ECT Workshop is now available as an online course. Whether you want to revisit key insights or experience the topics for the first time, you can now access recordings of all 13 expert-led sessions at your convenience.
It is possible to purchase individual lectures to focus on the topics that interest you, or you can purchase the full bundle to access all 13 lectures plus exclusive Q&A recordings with our presenters. Each course module includes a PDF file of the presentation slides.
From the fundamentals to advanced applications, this workshop is packed with valuable, practical content for anyone interested in brain stimulation techniques and current research advancements in the field of electroconvulsive therapy. The full course covers:
- Introduction by Dr. Sackeim
- Overview of Indications: Who does ECT Help? by Dr. McCall
- ECT in Major Depressive Episodes by Dr. Loo
- ECT in Schizophrenia, Mania, Catatonia, and Epilepsy by Dr. Sackeim
- Optimizing of ECT Technique: Consent, Patient Workup, Anesthesia, Monitoring During and After ECT by Dr. McCall
- Optimizing of ECT Technique: Physics of Stimulus, Electrical Dosing, Electrode Placement by Dr. Loo
- Optimizing of ECT Technique: Number of Treatments, Concurrent Pharmacology, Relapse Prevention by Dr. Sackeim
- Physiological Monitoring at ECT (EEG, ECG, EMG, BP, O2) by Dr. McCall
- Adverse Effects (Medical Morbidities, Suicide, Mania) by Dr. Loo
- Practical Issues in ECT: Demonstration of Σigma Device with Electrical Dosing, Electrode Placement, and Seizure Monitoring by Dr. Sackeim
- Cognition by Dr. Sackeim
- Staging & Combining ECT with Ketamine & Other Neuromodulation Interventions by Dr. Loo
- Quality of Life by Dr. McCall
Faculty Presenters (listed affiliations were at the time of the course)
Dr. Harold Sackeim- Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Radiology
- Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
- Founding Editor, Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational & Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
- Professor, Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
- Professor, Black Dog Institute
- Director of ECT, Ramsay Northside Clinic
- Sydney, Australia
- Professor Emeritus
- Psychiatry and Health Behavior
- Medical College of Georgia, USA
- Editor Emeritus, Journal of ECT