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electroconvulsive therapy

medical procedure
Event treatment_of_mental_disorders Q131543
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Summary

electroconvulsive therapy is a treatment of mental disorders[1]. It draws 12,215 Wikipedia views per month (treatment of mental disorders category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Developer: Ugo Cerletti[3]
  • Subclass of: psychiatric somatotherapy[4], convulsive therapy[5]
  • Commons category: Electroconvulsive therapy[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Electroconvulsive therapy[7]
  • ICD-9-CM: 94.27[8]
  • Uses: electroshock[9]
  • Exact match: https://w3id.org/sstim/vocab#techElectroconvulsiveTherapy[10]
  • P14541: 2fKgOJ[11]

Why It Matters

electroconvulsive therapy has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . Q141325360. Retrieved . w3id.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 000444
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'bar', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et',
    Sitelink count → 47
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 000444, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157136119|electroconvulsive therapy (#157136119)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender,"
  2. 5w ago · Rfabbri · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → https://w3id.org/sstim/vocab#techElectroconvulsiveTherapy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Exact match: https://w3id.org/sstim/vocab#techElectroconvulsiveTherapy, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788697660010"
  3. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → electroconvulsive-therapy
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: electroconvulsive-therapy, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289928856|electroconvulsive therapy (#289928856)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/"
  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2fKgOJ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0308166-elektrosokova-terapie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0308166-elektrosokova-terapie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 20w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subreddit → ect
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Subreddit: ect, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144657452|ect (#144657452)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Directory]] #mix'n'mat"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Developer → —
    Uses → —
    Instance of → treatment of mental disorders
    Topic's main category → Category:Electroconvulsive therapy
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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