Si Ying Wang

1China National Center for Bioinformation and Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2State Key Laboratory of Organ Regeneration and Reconstruction, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 3Beijing Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Beijing 100101, China 4Liver Transplant Center, Organ Transplant Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China 5Laboratory of Liver...

Si Wang,1,2,* Lin Zhang,1,2,* Yigao Wu,3 Jun Ma1,2 1Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health Center, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Hospital for Psychotherapy, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to this work Correspondence: Jun Ma, Department of Psychiatry, Wuhan Mental Health...

Introduction With a global prevalence of about 1%, schizophrenia (SCZ) is a common severe mental illness caused by multiple factors.1 Antipsychotic medication therapy is the first choice in the treatment of SCZ currently, but approximately 30% of patients with SCZ do not respond to standard antipsychotic treatment.2 Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most commonly used physical therapies for acute and severe mental illness.