...-modifying treatments are lacking. Case Presentation: Here, we report a case of a patient with clinical and imaging features of FTD. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was used to target affective and catatonic symptoms. After ECT, the patient showed improvements not only in affective symptoms but also...

...Young Tak Jo; Jungsun Lee; Yeon Ho Joo Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most important and safe nonpharmacological treatment for psychiatric disorders. Some patients experience unexplained fever after ECT, but only a few studies have reported on this. Method: We investigated fever...

...Jan-Baptist Belge; Linda Van Diermen; Bernard Sabbe; Manuel Morrens; Violette Coppens; Philippe de Timary; Eric Constant; Pascal Sienaert; Didier Schrijvers Introduction: The neurobiological mechanisms underlying the acute cognitive effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remain poorly...

...Anna Stippl; Fatma Nur Kirkgöze; Malek Bajbouj; Simone Grimm Background/Aims/Methods: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still one of the most potent treatments in the acute phase of major depressive disorder (MDD) and particularly applied in patients considered treatment resistant. However...

...Jan-Baptist Belge; Linda van Diermen; Bernard Sabbe; Paul Parizel; Manuel Morrens; Violette Coppens; Eric Constant; Philippe de Timary; Pascal Sienaert; Didier Schrijvers; Philip van Eijndhoven Introduction: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) influences the concentration of peripheral inflammatory...

...Omran Davarinejad; Koorosh Hendesi; Hassan Shahi; Serge Brand; Habibolah Khazaie Objective: For patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) who do not respond to drug therapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is often employed as an additional treatment. The aims of the present study were...

...; Alexander Sartorius Background: No candidate biomarkers based on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been identified as prognostic factors in patients with major depression treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), yet. Method: Following different underlying hypotheses, we analysed baseline CSF levels...

...Tomasz Pawełczyk; Emilia Kołodziej-Kowalska; Agnieszka Pawełczyk; Jolanta Rabe-Jabłońska Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the augmentation of antipsychotics (AP) with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) patients...

...Ching-Hua Lin; Ming-Chao Chen; Wen-Kuei Lee; Cheng-Chung Chen; Chiung-Hsien Huang; Hsien-Yuan Lane Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective treatment in treatment-resistant depression; it may modulate intracellular processes in such patients. This study aimed to investigate...

... an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) course. Methods: Aβ40 and Aβ42 were measured by means of an ELISA assay in 25 drug-resistant bipolar depressed patients before (T0) and 1 week after (T1) the end of ECT. The patients were clinically evaluated by means of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 21-item (HRSD-21...

..., and cognitive impairments in patients suffering from current manic episodes, while treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with and without concurrent sodium valproate therapy, and (2) to compare ECT seizure characteristics in patients with and without concurrent sodium valproate therapy. Methods: A total...

...Georgios Petrides; Kristen G. Tobias; Charles H. Kellner; Matthew V. Rudorfer Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for mood disorders. Continuation ECT (C-ECT) and maintenance ECT (M-ECT) are required for many patients suffering from severe and recurrent forms...

...Chih-Ting Huang; Chia-Hsiang Chen Background/Aims: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment modality for severe psychiatric disorders. Many studies have suggested that the therapeutic efficacy of ECT can be attributed to the structural and functional readjustment of the brain cells...

... Electroconvulsive therapy Predicting therapeutic response Ncuropsychobi ology 1990-91 ;24:121 124 © 1990-91 S. Karger AG, Base! 0302-282X/90-91/0243-012 1$2.75/0 Relationship between Pretreatment Electroencephalographic Coherence Measures and Subsequent Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Preliminary Study...

...Martin R. Cohen; Conrad M. Swartz While highly efficacious for affective disorders, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is sometimes accompanied by troublesome although temporary cognitive dysfunction. We speculated that the efficacy of ECT can be separated from its cognitive dysfunction...

.... Electroconvulsive therapy Isoflurane narcotherapy Pharmacopsychiatry Main Editor: B. Saletu (Vienna) Original Paper Neuropsychobiology 1995:31:182-194 G. Ganger3 R. Karazman3 J. Neamarkb B. Saletua G. Schonbeck3 J. Griinberger3 R. Dittrichc W. Petricekf P. Hoffmannd L. Linzmayer3 P. Anderer3 K. Steinberger3...

... with more pronounced paroxymal activity on the EEG. The role of this finding for the dosage of energy in the convulsive stimulus is discussed. EEG Electroconvulsive therapy Therapeutic response © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel 1996 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved...

...A. Conca; St. Koppi; P. König; E. Swoboda; N. Krecke Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a well-established diagnostic probe in neurological practice. The increasing knowledge of biological mechanisms in electroconvulsive therapy presents a clear case for studying the applicability of TMS...

...Melton Swartz The development is described of a new stimulus electrode placement for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) from expectations that relate the location and volume of induced seizure foci to side effects and efficacy, respectively. These expectations are that cognitive side effects would...

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