Maintenance electroconvulsive therapy in elderly psychotic unipolar depression;Tratamiento electroconvulsivo de mantenimiento en la depresión unipolar psicótica del anciano

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 126, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 491-492

  Serra, Montserrat ^b   Gastó, Cristóbal ^b   Navarro, Víctor ^a   Torres, Xavier ^b   Blanch, Jordi ^b   Masana, Guillem ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Elderly; Electroconvulsive therapy; Psychotic unipolar depression

Indexed keywords

NORTRIPTYLINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 33646520136     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13086850     Document Type: Article

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