Postictal Delirium (and Recovery From Melancholia) After Left‐Unilateral ECT
作者:
Ismael Leechuy,
Richard Abrams,
期刊:
Convulsive Therapy
(OVID Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 65-68
ISSN:0749-8055
年代: 1987
出版商: OVID
关键词: Electroconvulsive therapy;Unilateral ECT;Postictal delirium;Postictal excitement;Left hemisphere;Electrode placement;Therapeutic effect;Melancholia
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Postictal delirium was observed after left-unilateral ECT in a fully dextral man whose melancholia entirely remitted with seven treatments. These findings suggest that it is premature to attribute either the syndrome of postictal delirium or the beneficial effects of ECT in melancholia primarily to right hemisphere mechanisms.
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