Continuation electroconvulsive therapy for relapse prevention in middle-aged and elderly patients with intractable catatonic schizophrenia

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 481-489

  Suzuki, Kazumasa ^a,b   Awata, Shuichi ^a   Takano, Takehisa ^a   Ebina, Yukio ^a   Hitoshiiwasaki, ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 year relapse rate; Catatonic schizophrenia; Continuation ECT; Electroconvulsive therapy; Intractable schizophrenia; Middle aged and elderly patients

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RELAPSE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECURRENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CATATONIC; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23744448241     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2005.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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