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Biological Perspectives
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Author(s) -
Keltner Norman L.,
Boschini Deborah J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2009.00203.x
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , mechanism (biology) , psychiatry , psychotherapist , ictal , epilepsy , mental illness , depression (economics) , neuroscience , mental health , epistemology , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
In addition to the hundreds of new articles reviewed and incorporated into the text, the fourth edition includes an entirely new chapter on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy, a reassessment of ultrabrief pulse therapy, a comprehensive critique of the validity of the seizure threshold-stimulus titration dosing method, a compelling rebuttal of recent claims of ECT-induced persistent or permanent memory dysfunction, a proposed mechanism for the almost universal experience of subjective memory improvement with ECT, and a new model for understanding the neurophysiological basis underlying effective ECT.