Time to abandon electroconvulsion as a treatment in modern psychiatry

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-38

  Youssef, Hanafy A ^a  

^a MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Treatment uses and abuses

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0032942918     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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