TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief pulse ECT in melancholia
T2 - EEG and clinical effects
AU - Abrams, Richard
AU - Volavka, Jan
AU - Schrift, Michael
PY - 1992/1
Y1 - 1992/1
N2 - In a visual analysis of electroencephalograms (EBGs) obtained in 33 melancholic men before and after six brief pulse right unilateral, left unilateral, or bilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments, the authors were unable to detect the relation between therapeutic outcome and differential hemispheric lateralization of ECT-induced EEG slowing that had been reported previously for sine wave ECT at the same clinical site. These results may be related to differences in neurophysiologic effects between sine wave and brief pulse ECT, and do not support the hypothesis that lateralization of ECT-induced EEG slowing is central to the antidepressant effects of ECT.
AB - In a visual analysis of electroencephalograms (EBGs) obtained in 33 melancholic men before and after six brief pulse right unilateral, left unilateral, or bilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments, the authors were unable to detect the relation between therapeutic outcome and differential hemispheric lateralization of ECT-induced EEG slowing that had been reported previously for sine wave ECT at the same clinical site. These results may be related to differences in neurophysiologic effects between sine wave and brief pulse ECT, and do not support the hypothesis that lateralization of ECT-induced EEG slowing is central to the antidepressant effects of ECT.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-199201000-00011
DO - 10.1097/00005053-199201000-00011
M3 - Article
C2 - 1538208
AN - SCOPUS:0026538743
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 180
SP - 55
EP - 57
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 1
ER -
