Right unilateral ECT AT 6x seizure threshold: Is it effective in the psychoses?

Journal of ECT

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 158-163

  Little, John D ^a   Munday, Jo ^a   Atkins, Martin ^a  

^a Grampians Psychiatric Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

6x RUL ECT; Catatonia; Psychoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; MANIA; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041884845     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200309000-00008     Document Type: Article

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