Electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of intractable status epilepticus

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-190

  Kellner, Charles H ^a   Fink, Max ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATATONIA; DOPAMINE RELEASE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LETTER; MELANCHOLIA; MORTALITY; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; THERAPY EFFECT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANESTHESIA; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; SEIZURES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS;

EID: 70249111110     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.06.022     Document Type: Letter

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