Discontinuation of antidepressant medications before ECT

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-126

  Hamner, Mark ^a   Huber, Michael ^a  

^a RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030159832     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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