Electrical dose and seizure threshold: Relations to clinical outcome and cognitive effects in bifrontal, bitemporal, and right unilateral ECT

Journal of ECT

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 361-369

  Delva, Nicholas J ^a,b   Brunet, Donald ^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

Cognition; Electric stimulus; Electroconvulsive therapy; Electrode placement; Major depression; Seizure threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SEIZURES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0043283304     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200012000-00006     Document Type: Article

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