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Electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, may be considered for patients with schizoaffective disorder experiencing severe depression or severe psychotic symptoms that have not responded to treatment with other methods. Electroconvulsive therapy is a medical procedure where the patient is placed under anesthesia while a repeated and controlled electric current is passed through their brain.

Epidemiology
Because so many changes have been made in the DSM about schizoaffective disorder, there have been no large scale studies done on the epidemiology of this disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is estimated to occur in 0.5 to 0.8 percent of people at some point in their life. 30% of cases occur between the ages of 25 and 35. It is more common in women than men; however, this is because of the high concentration of women in the depressive subcategory, whereas the bipolar subtype has a more or less even gender distribution. The onset time of the disorder is likely more heavily affected by biological sex than by gender difference, which more is more heavily useful in how the patient functions. Schizoaffective disorder is estimated to be one-third as common as schizophrenia. More than 31% of all psychotic patients were found to have schizoaffective disorder in an international study that was completed across multiple countries in different continents.