Effective electroconvulsive therapy reverses glutamate/glutamine deficit in the left anterior cingulum of unipolar depressed patients

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 185-192

  Pfleiderer, Bettina ^a   Michael, Nikolaus ^a   Erfurth, Andreas ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Hohmann, Ulrike ^a   Wolgast, Matthias ^a   Fiebich, Martin ^b   Arolt, Volker ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Excitatory amino acids; Glutamate; Major depressive disorder; Proton magnetic resonance; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LITHIUM; LORAZEPAM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344838483     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(03)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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