Energy dosing in ECT: Threshold stimulation or formula?

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 4-6

  Fink, Max ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; HUMAN; REVIEW; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030947562     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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