Prediction of ECT response: Validation of a refined sign-based (CORE) system for defining melancholia

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-74

  Hickie, Ian ^a,b   Mason, Catherine ^b   Parker, Gordon ^b   Brodaty, Henry ^b  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; IMIPRAMINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029742513     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.1.68     Document Type: Article

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