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ECT/chlorpromazine combination versus chlorpromazine alone in acutely schizophrenic patients.
Author(s) -
Janakiramaiah N.,
Channabasavanna S. M.,
Murthy N. S. Narasimha
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1982.tb04504.x
Subject(s) - chlorpromazine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , therapeutic effect , medicine , anesthesia , psychology , pharmacology , psychiatry
The response to ECT or no ECT at two levels of chlorpromazine was studied in a 2 × 2 factorial experiment on 60 acutely schizophrenic patients hospitalized for a period of 6 weeks. ECT enhanced the therapeutic response at the 300 mg level of chlorpromazine but neither of the ECT chlorpromazine combinations offered any significant therapeutic advantage over 500 mg of chlorpromazine.