Electroconvulsive therapy in New Zealand: Terrifying or electrifying?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1237, 2006, Pages

  Melding, Pamela ^a,b  

^a Mental Health Services   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AMNESIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLIC OPINION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746359990     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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