ECT treatment for two cases of dementia-related pathological yelling

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-380

  Bang, Joy ^a   Price, Daniel ^b   Prentice, Glenn ^b   Campbell, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; HALOPERIDOL; LEVOTHYROXINE; OLANZAPINE; QUETIAPINE; RANITIDINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTRALINE; THIORIDAZINE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREAMING SYNDROME;

EID: 52649154682     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2008.20.3.379     Document Type: Letter

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