Successful electroconvulsive therapy in a patient with intellectual disability and bipolar disorder, with catatonic features misdiagnosed as encephalopathy

Journal of ECT

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 202-204

  Ligas, Adam ^a   Petrides, Georgios ^a   Istafanous, Rafik ^a   Kellner, Charles H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catatonia; ECT; Encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; CITALOPRAM; FLUVOXAMINE; RISPERIDONE; THIORIDAZINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; PSYCHOSIS; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASES; CATATONIA; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERSONALITY;

EID: 70349084970     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: 15334112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e3181911cfe     Document Type: Article

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