The new electric therapy, even if it is called ECT which used to be “shock treatment” that fried the brain synapses, is now totally different. The new ECT is more like TMS or transcranial magnetic stimulation. It changes the frequencies of the action potential firing rate in specific areas of the brain.
It still doesn’t work because it is a temporary treatment that needs to be repeated. Of the 11 evidence based approved treatment modalities for PTSD, the only one that is permanent is psychotherapy, but it is also the most expensive.
Personal experience suggests you are correct. Also getting help as early as possible improves the ability to control one’s PTSD. Waiting 25 or 30 years makes it much harder.
” It changes the frequencies of the action potential firing rate in specific areas of the brain”
I’ve never seen an explanation of brain and nervous system operation that would satisfy an electrical engineer.
If it’s an analog rather than a digital system then wow! I’d say analog has enormous potential for putting intelligence into machines.
But we’re stuck. The biologists can’t figure out how we work.