Comments on the "half-age" method of stimulus dosing

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-41

  Sackeim, Harold A ^a  

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ADULT; AGE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031089634     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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