Electroconvulsive therapy resurrected: Its successes and promises after 75 years

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-4

  Fink, Max ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE;

AMNESIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 79951667394     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674371105600102     Document Type: Editorial

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