Neurobiological substrates of electroconvulsive therapy for Tourette syndrome: A serial SISCOM study

Journal of ECT

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-280

  Morais, Silvio Luiz ^a   Derenusson, Guilherme Nogueira ^a   Pinto, Joel Porfirio ^a   Hounie, Ana Gabriela ^a   Dursun, Serdar Murat ^b   Wichert Ana, Lauro ^a   Kato, Mery ^a   De Oliveira, Lucas Ferrari ^a   De Azevedo Marques, Paulo Mazzoncini ^a   Sakamoto, Américo Ceiki ^a   Hallak, Jaime Eduardo Cecílio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; SPECT; Tourette syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIPERIDEN; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M; HALOPERIDOL; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; OLANZAPINE; PIMOZIDE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; SULPIRIDE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BEHAVIOR THEORY; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; REMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTEINE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

EID: 37349004455     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: 15334112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e31811f354c     Document Type: Article

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