Electroconvulsive therapy for depression
Administration of electroconvulsive therapy for depression associated with deep brain stimulation in a patient with post traumatic Parkinson’s Disease: a case study
... Case Presentation: The patient is a 58-year-old woman who was in a serious motor vehicle accident and sustained a concussion with loss of consciousness. Within weeks of the accident she began developing parkinsonian ...
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Prediction of electroconvulsive therapy response and remission in major depression: Meta-analysis
... words depression, electroconvulsive therapy, response, remission and the four predictors (age, depres- sion severity, psychotic and melancholic symptoms) were ...
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Levels of serum immunomodulators and alterations with electroconvulsive therapy in treatment-resistant major depression
... 16,17 Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a very effective method of treatment for treatment-resistant major depression, although the mechanism of action has not yet been fully ...
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Electroconvulsive therapy does not alter the synaptic protein neurogranin in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with major depression
... Introduction Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective, non-pharmacological treatment option for severe and treatment-resistant forms of depression, mania and ...
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The study protocol of the Norwegian randomized controlled trial of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment resistant depression in bipolar disorder
... electroconvulsive therapy to pharmacological treatment in treatment resistant bipolar ...resistant depression in bipolar disorder, Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale Score of at least ...
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Ketamine for depression relapse prevention following electroconvulsive therapy: protocol for a randomised pilot trial (the KEEP-WELL trial)
... with electroconvulsive therapy ...treating depression and understanding its biology has been the finding that ketamine has a robust, rapid-onset, though short-lived, antidepressant effect that is ...
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Low-dose ketamine does not improve the speed of recovery from depression in electroconvulsive therapy: a randomized controlled trial
... Another reason that ketamine provided no additional benefits to ECT could be that ketamine and ECT share similar antidepressant mechanisms. ECT is believed to work through various mechanisms, including changes in ...
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Electroconvulsive therapy for depression : optimising treatment and exploring molecular mechanisms
... with depression and also the first study of microRNA changes following ...major depression who responded well to ...in depression have used a microarray approach (Bocchio-Chiavetto et ...in ...
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Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and ketamine for relapse prevention: factors affecting response, cognition and research participation
... from depression with ECT was in line with expected figures, randomisation rates and treatment protocol adherence were remarkably ...for depression, I conclude that there is no reason why a trial of ketamine ...
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Is electroconvulsive therapy for depression more effective than placebo? A systematic review of studies since 2009
... for depression was more effective than placebo during the treatment period and no evidence at all of efficacy beyond the end of ...for depression, or had in any other way generated valid depression ...
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Administration of electroconvulsive therapy for depression associated with deep brain stimulation in a patient with post-traumatic Parkinson’s Disease: a case study
... Multiple programming sessions failed to impact her condition and there was concern that the pulse generator was malfunctioning. However, a repeat scan revealed that her intracranial leads had not shifted, and they were ...
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in Late-Life Depression
... poststroke depression, 226–228 and to a lesser extent, dementing ...poststroke depression and major depression in the context of de- menting illness, 229,230 although there is risk of increased ...
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Relapse following successful electroconvulsive therapy for major depression: A meta analysis
... continuation therapy, does not appear to have much lasting ...continuation therapy was permitted, half of all patients who responded to ECT relapsed within 3 months (Arfwidsson et al, 1973; Barton et al, ...
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Neurophysiological Characteristics of Magnetic Seizure Therapy vs. Electroconvulsive Therapy in Geriatric Patients with Severe Depression
... neuropsychological functioning post-treatment was found in another randomized trial of MST vs. ECT with medium effect sizes for measures of visuospatial learning, but there was a slight decline in performance for verbal ...
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Symptom predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy in older patients with treatment-resistant depression
... treatment-resistant depression outlined by Thase and Rush, scoring $21 on the Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating ...Åsberg Depression Rating Scale was used for ...Åsberg Depression Rating ...
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Comparing the efficacy of ultra-brief pulse to brief pulse in electroconvulsive therapy for major depression: a systematic review
... investigating supra-threshold ECT on the other hand have demonstrated markedly improved efficacy 80,82 . This suggests the therapeutic role of the electrical stimulus is not just an ictal trigger, but may induce dose ...
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Comparing the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of depression : a systematic review and meta-analysis
... greater in the ECT group than in the rTMS group. This meta- analysis therefore served to confirm the results of these stud- ies. The studies which did not show significant differences between the rTMS and ECT ...
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial With 6 Month Follow Up of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroconvulsive Therapy for Severe Depression
... For example, O’Connor et al. (36) reported that, com- pared to patients treated with rTMS, those treated with ECT had impaired acquisition and delayed recall of newly learned words 2–4 hours after the final treatment but ...
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ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY TODAY
... advocates say it is the most effective, lifesaving psychiatric treatment that exists today. The truth is that modern-day ECT is a far cr y from the old methods that earned ECT its sinister reputation. For many of you ...
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
... ECT may be recommended when symptoms are severe or other forms of treatment are ineffective. For some people, other forms of treatment such as medication and counselling have little or no effect on the symptoms of ...
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