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REFLEX STUDIES IN ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENTS

Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry, 1948
administration of extramural electroshock therapy, special attention was paid to the problem of reflex changes following treatments. Various investigators have repeatedly pointed out the frequent presence of tendon hyperrflexia, ankle clonus and a Babinski sign following electroshock convulsions. Kino1 alone noted frequent plantar areflexia for a short
N, SAVITSKY, W, KARLINER
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GERSTMANN SYMPTOMS FOLLOWING ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT

Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry, 1952
IN A RECENT communication, Juba1has reported the occasional occurrence of the various elements of the Gerstmann syndrome (finger agnosia, right-left disorientation, agraphia, acalculia) as an immediate consequence of electroshock treatment in psychiatric patients.
A L, BENTON, L S, ABRAMSON
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INTENSIVE ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT WITH REITER APPARATUS

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1951
A series of 34 depressions was treated with the Reiter Electro-Stimulator, which is a machine giving a unidirectional current. In view of the rather noticeable absence of confusion with this apparatus, it was decided to treat these patients intensively.
J, FROSCH, D, IMPASTATO, S B, WORTIS
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THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOTIC COMPLICATIONS OF PORPHYRIA WITH ELECTROSHOCK

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1954
Two cases of psychoses complicating porphyria are reported. Electroshock was effective in both cases in producing an immediate remission of the mental symptoms whenever they reoccurred.
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Electroshock Treatment: Two Novel Problems

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1968
The use of EST on two depressed patients with unusual medical complications is reviewed. The author concludes that this therapy should not be used when a diagnosis of hyperkaliemia and periodic paralysis is made. However, EST is judged safe for elderly patients with epicardial pacemakers; in fact, a pacemaker may be helpful in such cases.
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Direct current electroshock in the treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1967
Summary Electrical reversion of supraventricular arrhythmias has been successfully accomplished in seven patients varying in age from 2 months to 18 years. This experience suggests that synchronized DC electroshock can be used safely and effectively in children with congenital and acquired heart disease.
R I, White, J O, Humphries
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A Comparison of Desoxyephedrine (Methedrine), and Electroshock in the Treatment of Depression

Journal of Mental Science, 1950
Early in 1950 we treated 34 depressed patients with desoxyephedrine, in an attempt to discover whether it is comparable in efficiency to electroshock in the treatment of depression in a substantial proportion of cases. We originally intended to treat approximately 100 consecutive depressed patients admitted to hospital, and to compare the results with ...
A B, MONRO, H, CONIZER
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ELECTROSHOCK TREATMENT IN THE PSYCHOSES

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1942
L. H. SMITH, J. HUGHES, D. W. HASTINGS, B. J. ALPERS   +3 more
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Physiological and Physicochemical Mechanisms in Electroshock Treatment

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1952
E A, SPIEGEL, M, SPIEGEL-ADOLF
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THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS PATIENTS WITH ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1953
J H, MCCLELLAN, A, SCHWARTZ
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