Electroconvulsive therapy dosage in continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy: When is a new threshold titration necessary?

Journal of ECT

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 200-203

  Wild, Barbara ^a   Eschweiler, Gerhard W ^a   Bartels, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression schizophrenia treatment; Relapse; Seizure threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUFF; DEPRESSION; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE THRESHOLD;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURES;

EID: 10344253803     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200412000-00002     Document Type: Article

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