EEG in electroconvulsive therapy: Is more intensive paroxysmal activity associated with a higher therapeutic response?

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 138-141

  Hrdlička, Michal ^a,b   Moráň, Miroslav ^a,b   Vachutka, Jaromír ^a,b   Blatný, Marek ^a,b   Rozinková, Jirina ^a,b  

^a Military Hospital   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

EEG; Electroconvulsive therapy; Therapeutic response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 9344252833     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119264     Document Type: Article

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