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Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2009 Introduction Despite its controversial history, electroconvulsive therapy is generally an effective treatment with few serious side effects. One rare but troublesome side effect of electroconvulsive therapy is mania.
Saatcioglu Omer, Guduk Mehmet
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Atlas fracture after electroconvulsive therapy [PDF]
Journal of Spine Practice, 2022 Background: Since the first-time electroconvulsive therapy was performed in 1938, it remains to this day as one of the most effective forms of treatment for patients with major depression and other psychiatric conditions.
Murtaza Rashid +3 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson´s disease [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2015 Purpose To analyze the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy for the management of depression and/or psychosis refractory to drug therapy in patients with Parkinson disease.Methods A retrospective study was carried out including patients treated ...
Humberto Calderón-Fajardo +5 more
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Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Current Review [PDF]
Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2014 Most of the electroconvulsive therapy guidelines state that severe major depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, or catatonia are conditions where there is a clear consensus favoring early electroconvulsive therapy. The decision to administer
Gokben Hizli Sayar +4 more
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Intraparenchymal hemorrhage after electroconvulsive therapy [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2017 A 46-year-old woman with a history of medically refractory depression experienced a tonic-clonic seizure shortly after electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression.
Elizabeth W.J. Carlson +3 more
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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 The aim of this study is to prove the positive effect of electroconvulsive therapy on depressive disorders. Depression as a mental illness has not been fully studied in terms of its relationship in combination with electroconvulsive therapy ...
Klaudia Smulewicz +4 more
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Remission of Somatic Symptom Disorder With Comorbid Severe Major Depressive Disorder After Treatment With Electroconvulsive Therapy [PDF]
, 2021 This report describes a patient with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) who reached complete remission after a course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Somatic symptom disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Abeysundera, Hesitha +5 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy for Depression in Anorexia Nervosa. A review
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Anorexia nervosa has an important burden on both patients and families, with important comorbidities such as depression and obsessive symptoms. These are more resistant to pharmacological treatment than in non-anorexia patients, due to both
F. Azevedo +4 more
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Hippocampal neurogenesis and antidepressive therapy: shocking relations. [PDF]
, 2014 Speculations on the involvement of hippocampal neurogenesis, a form of neuronal plasticity, in the aetiology of depression and the mode of action of antidepressive therapies, started to arise more than a decade ago.
Aigner, Ludwig +15 more
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The cognitive impairments of electroconvulsive therapy
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial treatments in medicine, mainly because of its still unknown mechanism of action and uncertainty about cognitive side effects.
M. E. G. Mellaci +2 more
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