Background: About one third of patients with schizophrenia are treatment-resistant. The treatment options for these patients are limited. Objectives: To study the short-term efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Methods: 30 patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia were included. Patients were assessed at baseline, after 4, and after 6 sessions of ele...

Background and Objective: Depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is one of the effective methods for treatment of depression. Regarding the stimulatory effect of glutaminergic system on the progression of depression, the effect of ketamine as one of the most important inhibitors of this system has been investigated on the effectiveness of ECT. ...

In the field of psychogeriatrics, the differential diagnosis of depression and dementia, as well as the treatment of depression and comorbid dementia, is an important issue. In this paper, the authors present the case of a 72-year-old woman with Cotard's syndrome and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with delusions of negation accompanied by depressive sym...

ECT has well defined indications, demonstrated efficacy and safety, well characterized side-effects, and established standards for practice. The decision to use ECT in the treatment of a patient is a medical one, based on the psychiatrist’s assessment of the patient’s illness and an evaluation of the merits and risks of ECT, compared with alternative treatments. Similar to all medical procedure...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to describe the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of methamphetamine-induced withdrawal delirium and craving in a single case. CASE PRESENTATION A 44-year-old male presented to the hospital in Fars province, Iran, with Methamphetamine-Induced Withdrawal Delirium who responded to ECT. CONCLUSIONS The electroconvulsive therapy can be...

Modified electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is most often a day care procedure and requires an induction agent with a rapid onset and emergence. At the same time it should not increase the seizure threshold, or decrease the duration of seizures because the clinical outcome of ECT depends on the duration of seizures. Methohexital seems to be the gold standard [1] for induction of general anaesthesi...