Electroconvulsive therapy: When stigma delays use of an effective treatment

Clinical Geriatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 10-13

  Lantz, Melinda S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CARBONATE; OLANZAPINE; RISPERIDONE; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEHYDRATION; DELUSIONAL DISORDER; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOSIS; STIGMA; THERAPY DELAY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 57749119354     PISSN: 10951598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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