Speed of response to electroconvulsive therapy compared with ketamine

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 215-

  Kellner, Charles H ^a   Lisanby, Sarah H ^a   Weiner, Richard ^a   Prudic, Joan ^a   Rudorfer, Matthew V ^a   Young, Robert C ^a   Petrides, George ^a   Vaughn McCall, W ^a   Husain, Mustafa ^a   Greenberg, Robert M ^a   Knapp, Rebecca G ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; LETTER; REMISSION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; MALE;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE;

EID: 84916618703     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.021     Document Type: Letter

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