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The Present Status of Electroconvulsive Therapy

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Published1981
Citations192
References82

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The Diagnosis of Depressive Syndromes and the Prediction of E.C.T. Response

1965 • 933 citations

Memory Complaint and Impairment in the Aged

1975 • 364 citations

Mortality in Depressed Patients Treated With Electroconvulsive Therapy and Antidepressants

1976 • 344 citations

Unilateral electroconvulsive therapy

1971 • 295 citations

DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE OF HOSPITALIZED DEPRESSED PATIENTS TO SOMATIC THERAPY

1964 • 237 citations

Depression, Delusions, and Drug Response

1975 • 231 citations

ECT: I. Patients' Experiences and Attitudes

1980 • 204 citations

Is Unilateral ECT Less Effective Than Bilateral ECT?

1975 • 180 citations

Electroconvulsive shock and postsynaptic catecholamine effects: Increased psychomotor stimulant action of apomorphine and clonidine in reserpine pretreated mice by repeated ECS

1975 • 178 citations

The Psychological Treatment of Depression

1979 • 174 citations

Unilateral Electro-Convulsive Therapy

1958 • 174 citations

A Controlled Comparison of Simulated and Real ECT

1978 • 171 citations

Experimental studies of the mode of action of electroconvulsive therapy

1961 • 166 citations

The permeability of the blood—brain barrier during electrically induced seizures in man

1977 • 166 citations

The Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Phenelzine, in the Treatment of Depressive-Anxiety States

1973 • 159 citations

Retrograde Amnesia and Bilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

1981 • 158 citations

Further observations on the effect of repeated electroconvulsive shock on the behavioural resposes of rats produced by increases in the functional activity of brain 5-hydroxytryptamine and dopamine

1977 • 155 citations

ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK INCREASES THE BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES OF RATS TO BRAIN 5‐HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE ACCUMULATION AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANT DRUGS

1976 • 152 citations

A Comparison of the Effects on Depression and Memory of Bilateral E.C.T. and Unilateral E.C.T. to the Dominant and Non-Dominant Hemispheres

1968 • 148 citations

DOUBLE-BLIND CONTROLLED TRIAL OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (E.C.T.) AND SIMULATED E.C.T. IN DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

1978 • 144 citations

The Treatment of Schizophrenia

1934 • 141 citations

Seizure duration and clinical effect in electroconvulsive therapy

1978 • 140 citations

Amitriptyline in Depressive States

1963 • 137 citations

Memory Functions Six to Nine Months After Electroconvulsive Therapy

1975 • 137 citations

ECT FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA

1980 • 135 citations

ECT: III: Enduring Cognitive Defecits?

1980 • 135 citations

A Comparison of Techniques in Electro-Convulsive Therapy

1968 • 130 citations

Electric convulsion therapy in depression: a double-blind controlled trial.

1981 • 129 citations

Bilateral and unilateral ECT: effects on verbal and nonverbal memory

1978 • 115 citations

EVALUATION OF CONVULSIVE AND SUBCONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPIES UTILIZING A CONTROL GROUP

1956 • 110 citations

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE THERAPY

1953 • 107 citations

Electroconvulsive Therapy in Denmark

1976 • 104 citations

MEMORY DISTURBANCES AFTER ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

1959 • 97 citations

ACUTE HYPERTENSION CAUSING BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER BREAKDOWN DURING EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

2009 • 95 citations

ECT: II: Patients who Complain

1980 • 93 citations

ECT in the treatment of mania: a controlled study

1976 • 91 citations

Recent advances in clinical psychiatry

1971 • 87 citations

Treatment of Schizophrenia

1967 • 83 citations

Trials of Lithium, Chlorpromazine and Amitriptyline in Schizoaffective Patients

1978 • 83 citations

A study of the incidence of epilepsy following ECT

1980 • 79 citations

Are Patients Shocked by ECT?

1981 • 73 citations

A COMPARISON BETWEEN UNIDIRECTIONAL CURRENT NONCONVULSIVE ELECTRICAL STIMULATION GIVEN WITH REITER'S MACHINE, STANDARD ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTROSHOCK (CERLETTI METHOD), AND PENTOTHAL IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

1953 • 67 citations

Enhanced 5-hydroxytryptamine-mediated behavioural responses in rats following repeated electroconvulsive shock: Relevance to the mechanism of the antidepressive effect of electroconvulsive therapy

1979 • 65 citations

Prognostic Factors in the Electroshock Treatment of Depressive States

1959 • 64 citations

Relative Effectiveness of Various Components of Electroconvulsive Therapy

1959 • 64 citations

ECT-CHLORPROMAZINE AND CHLORPROMAZINE COMPARED IN THE TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

1967 • 64 citations

Recent advances in clinical psychiatry

1971 • 63 citations

A comparison of standard alternating current and low-energy brief-pulse electrotherapy.

1977 • 62 citations

Imipramine response in deluded depressive patients

1978 • 58 citations

Classification of depression and response to amitriptyline therapy

1979 • 52 citations

A Neuroendocrine Study of the Mechanism of Action of ECT

1980 • 52 citations

MEMORY DISTURBANCES AFTER ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY 5. Conditions one month after a series of treatments

1964 • 50 citations

Post-ECT Cognitive Defect and Elevation of Blood Pressure

1979 • 48 citations

Cardiovascular aspects of electric shock therapy.

1961 • 46 citations

COMPARISON OF FOUR REGIMENS IN NEWLY ADMITTED FEMALE SCHIZOPHRENICS

1964 • 44 citations

Prognostic Factors in the Electro-Shock Treatment of Depressive States

1959 • 44 citations

SPONTANEOUS SEIZURES AND RELATED ELECTROENCEPHALO-GRAPHIC FINDINGS FOLLOWING SHOCK THERAPY

1955 • 42 citations

THE PROPHYLACTIC VALUE OF EXTRA ECT IN DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

1973 • 42 citations

ECT in depression: the evidence of controlled studies.

1977 • 42 citations

PSYCHOLOGIC EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC CONVULSIVE TREATMENTS

1950 • 40 citations

Prognosis and pentothal induced electroencephalographic changes in electro-convulsive treatment

1957 • 39 citations

Serial electroencephalographic changes due to electrotherapy.

1955 • 35 citations

MAINTENANCE CONVULSIVE TREATMENTS

1965 • 35 citations

On “learned helplessness”: The therapeutic effects of electroconvulsive shocks

1977 • 33 citations

THE NORTHWICK PARK ECT TRIAL

1981 • 30 citations

A Double-Blind Comparative Evaluation of Flurothyl and ECT

1968 • 25 citations

Flurothyl convulsive therapy.

1970 • 24 citations

The scientific status of electro-convulsive therapy

1979 • 24 citations

THERAPEUTIC RESULTS IN BRIEF‐INTERVAL UNILATERAL ECT

1975 • 23 citations

Controlled Trial of Straight and Modified Electroplexy

1959 • 22 citations

Evaluation of Electric Convulsion Therapy As Compared with Conservative Methods of Treatment in Depressive States

1951 • 16 citations

Actual Practice of ECT in a Health Region of Britain

1978 • 13 citations

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1970 • 13 citations

PSYCHIATRY AND CONVULSANT THERAPY

1977 • 13 citations

CEREBRAL COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING 24,562 CONVULSION TREATMENTS IN 893 PATIENTS

1958 • 12 citations

A comparative study of modified and unmodified electric shock treatment.

1958 • 12 citations

Electroconvulsive therapy and EEG correlates in depressive disorders

1976 • 12 citations

Intrapatient responses to ECT and tricyclic antidepressants

1978 • 11 citations

Then and Now

1978 • 9 citations

Medical aspects of ECT.

1972 • 9 citations

ELECTROSHOCK WITH AND WITHOUT BARBITURATE ANESTHESIA

1964 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations

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