Convulsive Therapy in the Treatment of Mania: McLean Hospital 1973-1986
| Autor: | Robert C., Alexander, Melinda, Salomon, Martin, Ionescu-Pioggia, Jonathan O., Cole |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Zdroj: | Convulsive therapy. 4(2) |
| ISSN: | 0749-8055 |
| Popis: | The authors completed a retrospective chart review of the records of all patients identified with diagnoses of mania and schizoaffective disorder, manic type, who underwent electroconvulsive therapy between the years 1973 and 1986 at McLean Hospital. Ten of 18 manic patients (56%) and 3 of 9 schizoaffective patients (33%) experienced meaningful clinical benefit. The authors report the correlation of treatment and patient factors with outcome and review the literature on the convulsive therapy of mania. |
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