Efficacy and safety of electroconvulsive therapy in depressive disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Meta-analysis in clinical trials

1986 • 36,193 citations

Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis

1988 • 10,595 citations

Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis

1985 • 2,689 citations

Effects of Stimulus Intensity and Electrode Placement on the Efficacy and Cognitive Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy

1993 • 901 citations

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind Comparison of Bilateral and Right Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy at Different Stimulus Intensities

2000 • 761 citations

Continuation Pharmacotherapy in the Prevention of Relapse Following Electroconvulsive Therapy

2001 • 645 citations

Bayesian approaches to random‐effects meta‐analysis: A comparative study

1995 • 546 citations

Subcortical hyperintensities on magnetic resonance imaging: Clinical correlates and prognostic significance in patients with severe depression

1995 • 405 citations

Antidepressant efficacy of Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) in melancholia: a randomized comparison with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and imipramine

2000 • 375 citations

Mortality in Depressed Patients Treated With Electroconvulsive Therapy and Antidepressants

1976 • 344 citations

Clinical Trial of the Treatment of Depressive Illness

1965 • 342 citations

Titrated Moderately Suprathreshold vs Fixed High-Dose Right Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

2000 • 318 citations

Effects of electrode placement on the efficacy of titrated, low-dose ECT

1987 • 288 citations

Effects of Stimulus Parameters on Cognitive Side Effects

1986 • 245 citations

DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE OF HOSPITALIZED DEPRESSED PATIENTS TO SOMATIC THERAPY

1964 • 237 citations

THE NORTHWICK PARK ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY TRIAL

1980 • 221 citations

CALCIUM DEPRIVATION IN HYPOPARATHYROIDISM

1960 • 219 citations

Variation in ECT use in the United States

1995 • 176 citations

Interpreting the results of secondary end points and subgroup analyses in clinical trials: should we lock the crazy aunt in the attic?

2001 • 174 citations

CURE OF EARLY SYPHILIS.

1963 • 172 citations

A Controlled Comparison of Simulated and Real ECT

1978 • 171 citations

Electroconvulsive therapy: results in depressive illness from the Leicestershire trial.

1984 • 157 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

Therapeutic advantage of bifrontal electrode placement in ECT

1993 • 137 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

Antidepressant and cognitive effects of twice- versus three-times- weekly ECT

1995 • 127 citations

The Midwives' Registration Bill

1896 • 123 citations

POST-COLONOSCOPIC RETROGRADE ILEOGRAPHY

1988 • 121 citations

Audit of Electroconvulsive Treatment in two National Health Service Regions

1992 • 120 citations

The Nottingham ECT Study

1985 • 117 citations

Electroconvulsive therapy vs. paroxetine in treatment‐resistant depression — a randomized study

1997 • 117 citations

Unilateral and bilateral ECT in elderly patients A COMPARATIVE STUDY

1980 • 113 citations

Comparison of Electroconvulsive Therapy with Imipramine in Endogenous Depression: A Double Blind Study

1982 • 105 citations

Cognitive Consequences of Low‐Dosage Electroconvulsive Therapya

1986 • 99 citations

A Comparison of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Combined Phenelzine-Amitriptyline in Refractory Depression

1978 • 96 citations

Antidepressant Effects of High-Dose Right Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

1991 • 85 citations

Epidemiologic Considerations in Electroconvulsive Therapy

1984 • 83 citations

Effect of ECT on mortality and clinical outcome in geriatric unipolar depression.

1995 • 78 citations

A comparison of electroconvulsive therapy with a combined lithium and tricyclic combination among depressed tricyclic nonresponders

1989 • 78 citations

Bilateral versus unilateral electroconvulsive therapy: efficacy in melancholia

1983 • 77 citations

Differential Effect of Unilateral and Bilateral ECT

1970 • 72 citations

ECT and cerebral atrophy

1981 • 71 citations

The Amnesic and Therapeutic Effects of Bilateral and Unilateral ECT

1970 • 67 citations

Cost and benefit in the choice of ECT schedule

1998 • 66 citations

COMPARATIVE TRIAL OF L-TRYPTOPHAN AND E.C.T. IN SEVERE DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS

1974 • 63 citations

Bilateral and Unilateral ECT: Follow-Up Study and Critique

1970 • 63 citations

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

1977 • 62 citations

Auditing electroconvulsive therapy

1998 • 59 citations

A Synonym Learning Test for Use with Elderly Psychiatric Subjects: A Validation Study*

1965 • 57 citations

CLINICAL EVALUATION OF UNILATERAL EST

1965 • 54 citations

Balancing risks and benefits: another approach to optimizing diagnostic tests

1992 • 53 citations

A Controlled Comparison of Imipramine and Electroplexy

1962 • 49 citations

Treatment of Depression: A Comparative Study of E.C.T. and Six Drugs

1963 • 48 citations

A CONTROLLED COMPARISON OF AMITRIPTYLINE AND ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION

1966 • 46 citations

Does Treatment Influence Mortality in Depressives?: A Follow-up of 1076 Patients with Major Affective Disorders

1989 • 43 citations

EEG evidence of more “intense” seizure activity with bilateral ECT

1992 • 40 citations

THE EFFECTS OF UNILATERAL AND BILATERAL ELECTROCONVULISIVE THERAPY ON MEMORY

1973 • 38 citations

Twice versus thrice weekly ECT in melancholia: a double-blind prospective comparison

1993 • 35 citations

Comparison of the Efficacy of Titrated, Moderate-Dose and Fixed, High-Dose Right Unilateral ECT in Elderly Patients

1995 • 33 citations

The Clinical Evaluation of Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

1968 • 33 citations

Weekly ECT in Geriatric Depression.

1992 • 33 citations

A controlled comparative trial of unilateral and bilateral sinusoidal and pulse E.C.T. in endogenous depression.

1976 • 32 citations

TREATMENT OF UNIPOLAR DEPRESSION

1975 • 30 citations

The Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapya

1986 • 30 citations

Comparing Bilateral to Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Randomized Study With EEG Monitoring

1985 • 30 citations

The relative ability of three ictal EEG frequency bands to differentiate ECT seizures on the basis of electrode placement, stimulus intensity, and therapeutic response.

1996 • 30 citations

A COMPARATIVE TRIAL OF ECT AND TOFRĀNIL

1960 • 29 citations

Unilateral and bilateral ECT. A psychiatric and psychological study of therapeutic effect and side effects.

1978 • 28 citations

Unilateral versus bilateral electroconvulsive therapy. Investigations into the therapeutic effect in endogenous depression.

1973 • 28 citations

Computed tomographic scans in ECT‐patients

1986 • 26 citations

Memory Test Performance Under Three Different Waveforms of ECT for Depression

1984 • 26 citations

Is Old-Fashioned Electroconvulsive Therapy More Efficacious?

1992 • 19 citations

A Double-Blind Comparison of Sinusoidal Wave and Brief-Pulse Electroconvulsive Therapy in Endogenous Depression.

1988 • 18 citations

COMPARISON OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY WITH UNILATERAL AND BILATERAL STIMULATION

1970 • 16 citations

Once vs. three times weekly ECT in melancholia: a randomized controlled trial

1998 • 16 citations

Increases in prolactin levels following bilateral and unilateral ECT

1984 • 16 citations

A clinical comparison of phenelzine and electro-convulsive therapy in the treatment of depressive illness

1962 • 15 citations

Short-Term Cognitive Effects of Unilateral and Bilateral ECT

1985 • 14 citations

Perceptual Learning with Right Unilateral versus Bilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

1984 • 12 citations

Clinical efficacy of unilateral ECT.

1969 • 11 citations

Evaluation of cognitive effects of ect (preliminary observations).

1981 • 9 citations

Electroconvulsive therapy and the diencephalon: A preliminary report

1974 • 9 citations

COMPARISON OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY WITH UNILATERAL AND BILATERAL STIMULATION

1970 • 7 citations

Vertical Oculo-motor Crises in Post-encephalitic Parkinsonism [Les Crises Oculogyres Verticales da Parkinsonisme Post-encéphalitique], (L'Encéph., March, 1925.) Bing, R., and Schwartz, L.

1926 • 4 citations

A trial to determine any difference between two and three times a week ECT in the rate of recovery from depression

1998 • 4 citations