ECT in a geriatric depressed woman with bilateral frontal lobotomy

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-39

  Llorente, Maria D ^a   Holland, Peter J ^b  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boca Raton Psychiatric Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOSURGERY;

EID: 0030095768     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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