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Psychobiological factors of resilience and depression in late life. [PDF]
, 2019 In contrast to traditional perspectives of resilience as a stable, trait-like characteristic, resilience is now recognized as a multidimentional, dynamic capacity influenced by life-long interactions between internal and environmental resources.
Funes, Cynthia +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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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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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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Late-life depression : issues for the general practitioner [PDF]
, 2018 Late-life depression (LLD) is both a prevalent and life-threatening disorder, affecting up to 13.3% of the elderly population. LLD can be difficult to identify because patients mainly consult their general practitioner (GP) for somatic complaints ...
Declercq, Tom +4 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy-induced mania: a case report
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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Electroconvulsive therapy for Patients with Intellectual Disability. When and how?
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Intelectual disability is an illness with an important burden on patients and caregivers, especially when severe and when comorbidities such as other psychiatric disorders are present.
F. Azevedo +4 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy mediates neuroplasticity of white matter microstructure in major depression. [PDF]
, 2014 Whether plasticity of white matter (WM) microstructure relates to therapeutic response in major depressive disorder (MDD) remains uncertain. We examined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) correlates of WM structural connectivity in patients receiving ...
Clark, K +7 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy in Parkinson´s disease
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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Comparing the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of depression : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the longest standing psychiatric treatment available and has unequivocal benefit in severe depression. However this treatment comes with a number of side effects such as memory impairment.
Micallef-Trigona, Beppe
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