Neuropsychological effects and attitudes in patients following electroconvulsive therapy

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 613-617

  Feliu, Miriam ^a,b   Edwards, Christopher L ^a,b,c   Sudhakar, Shiv ^a   McDougald, Camela ^a   Raynor, Renee ^c   Byrd, Goldie ^d   Johnson, Stephanie ^d   Whitfield, Keith ^b   Jonassaint, Charles ^b   Romero, Heather ^a   Edwards, Lekisha ^a   Welington, Chante' ^a   Hill, LaBarron K ^e   Sollers III, James ^e   Logue, Patrick E ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Electroconvulsive therapy; Memory; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; REMISSION; SELF REPORT; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 47849126558     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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