Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment involving the induction of a seizure
through the transmission of electricity in the brain. Because of exploitation movies and …

For a physiological effect to be useful to regulate the electrical stimulus dose used in
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), it must show sensitivity to the stimulus dose. In the analogy of …

Expertise in medicating depression requires experience with all types of antidepressants,
including several medications within each type. Likewise, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) …

Within all psychiatric inpatients over a 4-year period, on admission depressives showed serum
albumin 5.4% lower (P < 0.001) than non-psychiatric controls. Similarly, manics showed …

• In a random-assignment, double-blind, controlled comparison in 38 melancholic men,
overall antidepressant potency of high-dose electroconvulsive therapy (378-mC charge) given …

Activated charcoal given repeatedly through a nasogastric tube to three patients in coma
from amitriptyline overdose greatly accelerated tricyclic elimination: the apparent half-life fell …

Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition along the spectrum of depressive
disorders. It can manifest itself in many ways and often induces very violent and suicidal …

OBJECTIVE: Greater ECT stimulus efficiency allows for a lower stimulus dose and should
diminish the side effects of ECT. METHOD: Four different ECT stimuli of identical charge (…

In a consecutive series of 21 men who received a course of brief-pulse square-wave
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a 2-second train of pulses led to a significantly (p < 0.001) higher …

In this prospective study, five patients who had repeatedly shown troublesome restless
emergence agitation after each of 20 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with a …