The successful use of right unilateral ultra-brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy in an adolescent with catatonia

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-53

  Rhoads, Jesse C ^a   Votolato, Nicholas A ^a   Young, James L ^a   Gilchrist, Richard H ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; catatonia; depression; electroconvulsive; ultra brief

Indexed keywords

ARIPIPRAZOLE; BENZATROPINE; CITALOPRAM; LORAZEPAM;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECREASED APPETITE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEVICES; MALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CATATONIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 75149141232     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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