“…Therefore, it is encouraging that, in this issue of the Journal of ECT , Copersino et al 1 report that the antidepressant effect of ECT benefits patients regardless of the presence or absence of baseline cognitive impairments. Chan et al 2 then go further to report that ECT improves neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with neurocognitive disorders, similar to an earlier report in this Journal 3 . To the extent that cognitive adverse effects are a concern in a particular patient, Miller et al 4 found that high power in the electroencephalogram theta band predicts greater acute cognitive adverse effects from high-dose right unilateral ECT, thus creating an opportunity to monitor the ictal electroencephalogram and accordingly adjust the stimulus dose early in the treatment course.…”