According to Wikipedia it was insulin shock therapy, not ECT, that cost Townes Van Zandt his memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt#Early_life

According to Wikipedia it was insulin shock therapy, not ECT, that cost Townes Van Zandt his memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt#Early_life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt#Early_life I heard a Radio Lab episode in which a sufferer of chronic depression said that he hyperventilated before ECT to minimize memory effects.