Characteristics of responders and nonresponders to brief-pulse right unilateral ECT in a controlled clinical trial

Journal of ECT

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 118-123

  Delva, Nicholas J ^a,b   Brunet, Donald G ^a,b   Hawken, Emily R ^b   Kesteven, Rita M ^b   Lawson, J Stuart ^a,b   Lywood, Denis W ^a   Rodenburg, Martin ^a,b   Waldron, John J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Providence Continuing Care Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulus; Electroconvulsive therapy; Electrode placement; Major depression; Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy; Seizure threshold

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034975267     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200106000-00006     Document Type: Article

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