Targeted prefrontal cortical activation with bifrontal ECT

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-170

  Blumenfeld, Hal ^a   McNally, Kelly A ^a   Ostroff, Robert B ^a   Zubal, I George ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Electroconvulsive therapy; Regional cerebral blood flow; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0043092249     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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