ECT stimulus intensity: Are present ECT devices too limited?

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 963-967

  Krystal, Andrew D ^a   Dean, Margaret D ^a   Weiner, Richard D ^a   Tramontozzi III, Louis A ^a   Connor, Kathryn M ^a   Lindahl, Virginia H ^a   Massie, Ryan W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034047296     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.6.963     Document Type: Article

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