ECT, Blood Pressure Changes and Neuropsychological Deficit
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (1) , 36-38
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.147.1.36
Abstract
Summary: Twenty psychiatric in-patients were studied before and after five bilateral electroconvulsive treatments for major depression. There were significant memory and neuropsychological changes after treatment, and significant reductions in depression rating scores, but they did not correlate with various measures of blood pressure elevation during treatment. The importance of ECT-related amnesia is discussed.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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