Convulsive Therapy: Theory and Practice

Abrams alternating current amnesia amobarbital anesthesia anticholinergic Arch assessment atropine barbiturate behavior bilateral ECT biochemical brain function cardiac catatonia cerebral chlorpromazine clinical efficacy convulsive therapy Cronholm d'Elia denial depressed patients depressive illness differences disorders duration ECT process EEG slow wave effects of ECT efficacy of ECT electric electroconvulsive therapy electrodes electroshock therapy elicit endogenous depression F-scale flurothyl frequency Holmberg hormone hospital hypothalamic imipramine impairment improvement increased induced seizures insulin coma Kalinowsky last treatment lithium mania manic memory tests Ment mentally ill Metrazol modified ECT Neurol nondominant number of treatments observations organic psychosis Ottosson outcome oxygen particularly patients receiving patients treated patients who received pentylenetetrazol physiologic predictors pretreatment Psychiatry psychological psychosis psychotherapy psychotic received ECT reduced reported response to ECT schizophrenia schizophrenic patients scores shock therapy slow wave activity spontaneous seizures stimulation studies subconvulsive succinylcholine symptoms therapeutic therapists threshold tion tricyclic antidepressants unidirectional Weinstein