Electroconvulsive Therapy in Functional Hallucination: Scope and Challenges

Electroconvulsive Therapy in Functional Hallucination: Scope and Challenges

Functional hallucinations are hallucinations triggered by a stimulus in the same modality and cooccur with it. They are rare in occurrence; however, their rarity has no significance as psychopathology till date. Also, very little is known about the treatment of such hallucinations. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been tested for several psychiatric illnesses and has a few relative contraind...

Propofol and electroconvulsive therapy.

(being a private hospital) where often the most difficult patients are admitted. The situation with restricted patients is differ ent. The RMO has no authority to discharge the patient, although the Home Office could be accused of passing the buck. It is unfair that administrative officers and clerks, hundreds of miles away at the Home Office, should make this decision for some of the most diff...

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Visual Analytics: Scope and Challenges

In today’s applications data is produced at unprecedented rates. While the capacity to collect and store new data rapidly grows, the ability to analyze these data volumes increases at much lower rates. This gap leads to new challenges in the analysis process, since analysts, decision makers, engineers, or emergency response teams depend on information hidden in the data. The emerging field of v...

Electroconvulsive Therapy and Medical Illness

Physicians who use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) need to be vigilant for unstable medical conditions before and during the course of treatment. This brief review is intended to highlight some basic principles and specific concerns that may be encountered in the use of ECT in patients who have comorbid medical illness. For more extensive discussions, I refer the reader to recent reviews of ECT...