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The treatment of late age onset psychoses with electroconvulsive therapy
Author(s) -
Figiel Gary S.,
Botteron Kelly,
Zorumski Charles F.,
Jarvis Michael R.,
Doraiswamy Murali,
Krishnan Ranga
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930070307
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , delirium , hyperintensity , psychology , ictal , medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , psychiatry , electroencephalography , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , radiology
Abstract The authors describe the clinical course and the brain imaging findings of six patients with late age onset psychoses who were treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). In all five patients who failed to respond to ECT, one or more structural brain changes (lateral ventricular enlargement and/or subcortical structural changes) were observed. In addition, all six patients developed an interictal ECT‐induced delirium. Consistent with previous ECT‐induced delirium studies, caudate hyperintensities were present in the three patients who received brain MRI scans. The potential clinical correlates of structural brain changes in LAOP patients will be described, along with proposed areas of future research.