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Vol. CXXVII, No. 118 | © 2018 The Michigan Daily
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OPINION ...............................
ARTS/NEWS .........................
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SPORTS................................
MICHIGAN IN COLOR
Real
Representation
“It’s hard to be a strong
woman. Even harder to be
a strong Black woman.”
>> SEE PAGE 9
NEWS
UM Lawsuit
‘U’ responds to Speech
First’s lawsuit against Bias
Response Team.
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
Expand the
franchise
Ethan Kessler talks about
the issues behind felon
disenfranchisement.
>> SEE PAGE 5
ARTS
Pusha-T and
A$AP Rocky
Rap is heating up this
summer, and Testing and
DAYTONA are impressive.
>> SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
Charles
Matthews
Forward Charles Matthews
withdraws from NBA Draft
and announces return to
Michigan
>> SEE PAGE 12
inside
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Study finds shock therapy
viable depression treatment
Despite stigma,
ECT found to be
cost-effective
By ALICE TRACEY
Summer Daily News Editor
Electroconvulsive therapy, also
known as ECT or shock therapy,
may serve as a cost-effective
treatment for depression after
two
other
interventions
have
failed, according to a University of
Michigan study published May 9
this year.
ECT is a 15- to 20-minute
procedure in which the patient is
placed under light anesthesia and
an electric stimulus is delivered to
electrodes attached to the patient’s
scalp. Common diagnoses treated
by ECT include depression, bipolar
disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia,
catatonia and epilepsy. Michigan
Medicine opened a new facility
dedicated to ECT in 2016, which
now treats about 150 to 200 patients
a year, totaling about 3,000 ECT
procedures annually, said Daniel
Maixner, a psychology associate
professor and co-author of the study.
Maixner administers ECT to
patients ranging from their teens
to nearly 100 years old. He said
ECT often yields positive results
in severely depressed patients
because, simply put, the procedure
“resets” neural pathways by causing
between 20 and 60 seconds of
hyperactivity in the brain.
“It’s not really rewiring, but it
could be calming circuits that are
stuck on,” Maixner said. “There’s
some evidence that the circuitry
gets stuck with depression, and
patients describe it that way too.”
Psychology associate professor
Neera
Ghaziuddin,
who
also
administers ECT, said electrical
stimulation can alter many of the
different physiological pathways
associated
with
depression.
The procedure normalizes the
hypothalamic
pituitary
adrenal
access,
which
controls
stress
response, and regulates the release
of neurotransmitters. In addition,
ECT thickens the linings of blood
cells, increases blood infusion to
the brain, ups the production of
proteins that affect neurons and
controls the transcription of genes
involved in depression. According to
Ghaziuddin, ECT treats depression
through more mechanisms than
antidepressant medication.
Physicians
recommend
ECT
to depressed patients based on
two main factors, resistance to
treatment and severity of illness,
where severity generally takes
precedence. Maixner said like
any
treatment,
ECT
becomes
less effective the longer a patient
has been suffering. In the study
published May 9, Maixner and his
colleagues investigated when in
the course of a patient’s illness ECT
should be considered. The team
used an analytic model to perform
a cost-benefit analysis of ECT,
considering the quality-adjusted
life-years, or relatively happy and
healthy years, that patients gain
from the procedure.
Radio analyst
resigns amidst
allegations
Jack Lessenberry
accused of sexual
harassment by
former students
By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Summer Daily News Editor
Jack Lessenberry, a journalism
professor at Wayne State University
and political analyst for Michigan
Radio, has resigned from his positions
amid sexual harassment allegations.
Penny Bowler, a former WSU
student quoted in the Deadline Detroit
article that originally broke the story,
claimed Lessenberry offered a ride
home in 2006 and 2007 and inquired
if she had a boyfriend. Bowler did not.
According to Bowler, Lessenberry
proceeded to tell her some students
are willing to “do anything to get
an A” and touched her without her
consent.
According to an article from The
Detroit News, Lessenberry is accused
of making inappropriate comments
and
attention
toward
women
while employed as an editor at the
Commercial Appeal newspaper in
Minneapolis and as a WSU professor.
The
original
Deadline
Detroit
article also reported that 14 women
have come forward with allegations
against Lessenberry, occurring over
about a 30-year period, including
forced kissing and inquiries about
past and current romantic partners.
Lessenberry
has
previously
written
articles
for
Michigan
Radio denouncing Michigan State
University’s handling of the Larry
Nassar sexual abuse scandal.
In an article with the headline
“Michigan
State
needs
cultural,
systemic change,” Lessenberry wrote
about what he felt was a narrow-
minded
culture
regarding
the
scandal.
DESIGN BY JACK SILBERMAN
ONE-HUNDRED-TWENTY SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Administration
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