Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy at six times seizure threshold

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 715-719

  Little, John D ^a   Munday, Jo ^a   Lyall, Gordon ^a   Greene, Dennis ^a   Chubb, Graeme ^a   Orr, Michelle ^a  

^a Grampians Psychiatric Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Seizure threshold; Unilateral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346656676     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2003.01262.x     Document Type: Article

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