Electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of late-onset obsessive compulsive disorder

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 830-831

  Loi, Samantha ^a   Bonwick, Richard ^a  

^a Huntington's Disease Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

ECT; late onset OCD

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; MIRTAZAPINE; PROPOFOL; QUETIAPINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; SUXAMETHONIUM; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; AGITATION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRY; REMISSION; RESTLESSNESS; RETINA MACULA HEMORRHAGE; SCREENING; SEIZURE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TEAR FLOW; THOUGHT DISORDER; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957356999     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210000451     Document Type: Article

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