Electroconvulsive Therapy for Catatonia in a Boy With Hydrocephalus and an Arachnoid Cyst

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-75

  Wachtel, Lee E ^a   Baranano, Kristin ^b   Reti, Irving M ^b  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM;

ADOLESCENT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUTISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; STUPOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WAXY FLEXIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CATATONIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952975423     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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