Recent advances in optimizing electroconvulsive therapy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 632-638

  Loo, Colleen K ^a,b,c   Schweitzer, Isaac ^d   Pratt, Chris ^e  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e The Melbourne Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bifrontal ECT; Electroconvulsive therapy; Electrode placement; Pulse width; Stimulus dose

Indexed keywords

BURN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745620797     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01862.x     Document Type: Review

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