Electroconvulsive therapy and determination of cerebral dominance

Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dragovic, Milan ^a   Allet, Lindsay ^b   Janca, Aleksandar ^b,c  

^a GRAYLANDS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HANDWRITING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; REVIEW; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WADA TEST;

EID: 33645221216     PISSN: 14752832     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2832-3-14     Document Type: Review

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