Efficacy and cognitive side effects after brief pulse and ultrabrief pulse right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy for major depression: A randomized, double-blind, controlled study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Spaans, Harm Pieter ^a   Verwijk, Esmée ^a   Comijs, Hannie C ^b,c   Kok, Rob M ^a   Sienaert, Pascal ^e   Bouckaert, Filip ^e   Fannes, Katrien ^e   Vandepoel, Koen ^e   Scherder, Erik J A ^d   Stek, Max L ^c   Kho, King H ^a  

^a PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GGZ InGeest   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; LITHIUM;

AMSTERDAM MEDIA QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY INTERVIEW; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DSM-IV; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEXICAL MEMORY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84889264439     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.13m08538     Document Type: Article

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