Experimental studies of the therapeutic action of electroconvulsive therapy in endogenous depression the role of the electrical stimulation and of the seizure studied by variation of stimulus intensity and modification by lidocaine of seizure discharge

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 172-194

  Cronholm, Börje ^a  

^a NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXOBARBITAL; LIDOCAINE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0029781521     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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