Patients with somatoform disorders can be significantly impacted by the condition and there is often comorbid depression anxiety. In cases that are treatment resistant, disorder persisting despite intensive psychological input numerous psychotropic medications, use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been considered a possible option. Here, authors report case such patient who responded to E...

BACKGROUND Irrespective of the treatment method used, there is a strong tendency to relapse into depression if treatment terminates. The purpose of this retrospective study is to investigate the relapse rate and the time elapsing before relapse after electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) and what was done to prevent this. MATERIAL AND METHOD The ECT records and case notes of patients who received...

Introduction Persistent delusional disorder has some features similar to schizophrenia, although the functionality of patients with this diagnosis is usually higher and diagnosed at an older age. Although pharmacological treatment schizophrenia been studied extensively, there not much data on persistent disorder. Regarding use clozapines specifically in disorders, are case reports encouraging r...

This issue includes the findings from the largest randomised controlled trial ever conducted with bilateral, unilateral and bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The background to the study and its findings are discussed.

BACKGROUND In principle, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can only be administered to patients who consent to the treatment. If the patient does not consent, the treatment can be given in exceptional cases, in situations where a plea of necessity can be made. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the issue of consent was documented in the patient records at Dikemark Hospital in th...

Little work is available on the acute and time-dependant dopaminergic effects of single electroconvulsive shock (ECS) and multiple ECS despite the posited clinical utility of such schedules of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) administration and the posited role of dopaminergic mechanisms in iieuropsychiatric disorders. In this study, using the apomorphine-induced motility-alteration behavioural ...

Earlier Views Before the introduction of electroconvulsive therapy it was a generally accepted view that a depressive illness which was accompanied by symptoms of depersonalization was likely to run a long course. In recent years, however, opinions on the prognostic significance of depersonalization in depressive illness have been more divided. Mayer-Gross, Slater, and Roth (1954) stated that t...

AIMS AND METHODS To investigate patients’ subjective attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) a questionnaire was posted to 89 consecutive patients who had received treatment in an ECT department. RESULTS Fifty-one responses were obtained (57%). Results indicated a high satisfaction with the department and the treatment itself; 44 respondents would or might have ECTagain and 35 reported at ...

AIMS AND METHODS To investigate patients’ subjective attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) a questionnaire was posted to 89 consecutive patients who had received treatment in an ECT department. RESULTS Fifty-one responses were obtained (57%). Results indicated a high satisfaction with the department and the treatment itself; 44 respondents would or might have ECTagain and 35 reported at ...

In spite of recent developments in the pharmacotherapy of depressive disorders, the delay until clinical improvement can be achieved, and the considerable rate of nonresponse and nonremission, are major problems which remain unresolved. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a nonpharmacologic biological treatment which has been proven to be a highly effective treatment option, predominantly for de...