Who responds to electroconvulsive therapy?: A comparison of effective and ineffective forms of treatment

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 322-328

  Sobin, Christina ^b   Prudic, Joan ^b   Devanand, D P ^b   Nobler, Mitchell S ^b   Sackeim, Harold A ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; AGED; DELUSIONS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029761994     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.3.322     Document Type: Review

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