Psychology for Engineers 3.0: Sensory Effects in Depression and After Effects of ECT

Abstract

Depression has been the commonest reason why people come to a psychiatrist, although the common man's perception is that all psychological problems are depression. Not just adults, but two percent of school children, and five percent of teenagers also suffer from depression, and these mostly go unidentified. What one sees in most patients is the myth related to depression. People still believe that it is because of some weakness in personality, or that one can cure it by oneself, or that medication would go lifelong and are mere sedatives.

In this review, we aim to address this with respect to two proposed constructs: first criteria is sensory processing and an expanded set of sensory perceptual signals which play an important role in one’s life and curing mental illness. The second criteria is how ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) affects the brain. In response to these first two criteria, the review of each of the two proposed sensory and medical therapy constructs with an overview of the relevant psychological constructs as well as implicated neural structures is shown. The sensory solution to the problem is also tried to be constructed.