number of treatments given. Since depression alone also causes impairment in memory, all such memory loss may not be due to ECT. Actually, some patients have improved memory after ECT because the depression lifts. Generally, ECT is not used unless a severely depressed person is resistant to all other forms of therapy and is determined to commit suicide. PSYCHOSURGERY Attempts to influence the mind through surgery have met with much resistance in the Christian community, and rightly so. Prefrontal