{"podcast":{"title":"Advances in Care","slug":"advances-in-care-6039100","podcast_index_feed_id":6039100,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/TZu4B0z0","website_url":"https://advances-in-care.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/28227570-5d93-44b2-858d-45c721fe98dd/cd346cd3-6c1f-4dca-bfad-555d89b80e6c/3000x3000/nypreputationpodcastheroimage1400x1400042226_2.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"NewYork-Presbyterian","episode_count":65,"summary":"On Advances in Care, epidemiologist and science communicator Erin Welsh sits down with physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian hospital to discuss the details behind cutting-edge research and innovative treatments that are changing the course of medicine. From breakthroughs in genome sequencing to the backstories on life-saving cardiac procedures, the work of these doctors from Columbia & Weill Cornell Medicine is united by a collective mission to shape the future of health care and transform the lives of their patients. Erin Welsh, who also hosts This Podcast Will Kill You, gets to the heart of her guests’ most challenging and inventive medical discoveries. Advances in Care is a show for health careprofessionals and listeners who want to stay at the forefront of the latest medical innovations and research. Tune in to learn more about some of medicine’s greatest leaps forward. For more information visit nyp.org/Advances","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T18:18:15.177380+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advances-in-care-6039100"},"episode":{"title":"The Positive Impact of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Severe Psychiatric Illness","slug":"the-positive-impact-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-for-severe-psychiatric-illness","published_at":"2026-06-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advances-in-care-6039100/the-positive-impact-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-for-severe-psychiatric-illness","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advances-in-care-6039100","url":"https://advances-in-care.simplecast.com/episodes/the-positive-impact-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-for-severe-psychiatric-illness-ZuSZ9Io1","audio_url":"https://p.podderapp.com/1440337256/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/20f5dff1-c9dc-44ab-8b84-fc16c4ca51b2/cc9697ff-ec07-4499-8331-0e85c7cccb15/episodes/audio/group/d9583c46-03c1-4c54-bfd3-8cacdeb18c96/group-item/7b91ac25-1c6b-4950-bbdf-7e8b395cd942/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=TZu4B0z0","summary":"On this episode of Advances in Care, Dr. Leonardo Lopez, a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and vice chair for inpatient services in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins Erin Welsh to discuss a transformative but widely inaccessible psychiatric treatment: electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Dr. Lopez describes the history of the treatment, how it has evolved since its inception to become one of the safest procedures done under general anesthesia, and the dramatic response rates. He also shares the transformative story of a pediatric patient with catatonia whose syndrome resolved after a 6-week ECT treatment plan allowing her to return to normal life activities. Despite the positive responses, ECT has carried a stigma born of its early practices and portrayals in media however, the modern version of this therapy is less than 5 minutes and is administered while patients are under general anesthesia, resulting in some of the fastest-acting psychiatric treatments for certain conditions, with minimal side effects.","meta_description":"On this episode of Advances in Care, Dr. Leonardo Lopez, a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and vice chair for inpatient services in the Department of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":974,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/advances-in-care-6039100/episodes/the-positive-impact-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-for-severe-psychiatric-illness/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advances-in-care-6039100/the-positive-impact-of-electroconvulsive-therapy-for-severe-psychiatric-illness.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}