The Present Status of Electroconvulsive Therapy
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References (82)
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
[No Title]
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