Objective Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a rapidly effective treatment for severe depression. Treatment with right unilateral (RUL) or bitemporal (BT) ECT may explain individual differences in speed of effectiveness. There limited evidence demographic and clinical factors that predict response remission ECT. We aimed to investigate improvement as well achieving between twice-weekly brief-pu...

Objectives: One of the current challenges in psychiatry is search for answers on how to effectively manage drug-resistant depression. The occurrence drug resistance patients an indication use electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This method highly effective and usually results relatively quick health improvement. Despite knowledge ECT works, not all biological pathways activated during its have bee...

Some patients with severe mental disorders are refractory to psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacological interventions. We describe a patient with severe symptoms from the age of 16 to 44. Her illness is best described as a schizo-affective disorder. Several series of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) followed by maintenance once a week for more than six years has kept her out of hospital beds for...

The management of major psychiatric conditions during pregnancy is exceptionally difficult. Pharmacoresistant, life-threatening and severe symptoms such as catatonia and suicidal behavior affect the health and safety of both mother and child. In such cases, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be considered as an alternative to pharmacologic treatment. In this report, we aimed to present anaesth...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is effective in the treatment of treatment-resistant major depression. The fear of cognitive impairment after ECT often deters patients from choosing this treatment option. There is little reliable information regarding the effects of ECT on overall cognitive performance, while short-term memory deficits are well known but not easy to measure within clinical rout...

background: electroconvulsive therapy (ect) is one of the most efficacious treatment for major depressive disorder (mdd), it is also used as a rapid and efficacious treatment for other psychiatric disorders, especially treatment resistant ones. the cognitive impairment is one of the most important side effects of ect. this study examined the memoral herbal efficacy in prevention of ect‑induced ...

TOPIC: Diffuse Lung Disease TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been increasingly used over the last few years for various indications, of rare complications described in literature is pulmonary edema, only 9 case reports this complication, 8 which were attributed to none cardiogenic cause and one had a cardiology component. Here we present edema diffuse ...

Abstract Negative symptoms in schizophrenia remain a clinical challenge with small effect sizes and evidence for pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment approaches. Studies suggest that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) holds some promise as option of often persistent negative clinically meaningful effects. This review summarizes the existing on efficacy ECT patients schizophrenia. Thirty-...

Adverse cardiovascular responses to anesthesia during either electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or elective surgical procedures were evaluated in 27 patients maintained on chronic (3 months-3 yr) monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) therapy. Changes in blood pressure and heart rate in study patients (n = 22 ECTs in 13 patients) undergoing ECT were not significantly different from those observed in p...

Abstract Agitation is experienced by over 90% of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) which increases morbidity and mortality contribute to caregiver burden. There are no FDA-approved treatments for severe agitation in people advanced dementia. Behavioral interventions first-line management strategies but not effective the most severely agitated patients. Off-label use psychotropic medicat...