Leukocyte Gene Expression in Patients with Medication Refractory Depression before and after Treatment with ECT or Isoflurane Anesthesia: A Pilot Study

Figure 1

ECT and ISO display progressive improvements on quick inventory of depression scale (QIDS) self-report taken prior to each treatment. ECT patients are in solid squares and ISO patients in open triangles. Both treatment groups display progressive improvement over the 10 treatments. As described in the demographics table, all ISO patients received 10 treatments and completed their QIDS-SR prior to each treatment. Conversely, 11/14 ECT patients completed their QIDS. For data at treatments 9 and 10, there were 10 and 7 patients, respectively, in the ECT group. The slight upturn at treatments 9 and 10 in the ECT group is the result of the more severely depressed patients requiring those final treatments.