Post-seizure EEG fractal dimension of first ECT predicts antidepressant response at two weeks

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 52, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 235-238

  Gangadhar, B N ^a   Subbakrishna, D K ^a   Janakiramaiah, N ^a   Motreja, S ^a   Narayana Dutt, D ^b   Paramehwara, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Fractal dimension; Melancholia; Postictal EEG suppression; Predictors; Treatment response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032942648     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(98)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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