The decision to use ECT: For whom? When?

Modern Problems of Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue , 1997, Pages 203-214

  Fink, Max ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030635119     PISSN: 00770094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061669     Document Type: Review

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