Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Psychiatric disorders: A second chance for ECT?

Psychiatric disorders: A second chance for ECT?
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 15, 69 (2014). doi:10.1038/nrn3686

Author: Sian Lewis

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can improve therapeutic outcomes in some patients with mood disorders who are not responsive to antidepressant drugs, but it is controversial because of its apparently unspecific effect. A new study shows that in patients with unipolar or bipolar disorder, ECT has highly



Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/EFFz360NI9c/nrn3686

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