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Early effects of modern electroconvulsive therapy on subjective memory in patients with mania or depression
Author(s) -
Sevda Bağ,
Özge Canbek,
Ilhan Atagün,
Tarik Kutlar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.183782
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , mania , depression (economics) , psychiatry , psychology , research diagnostic criteria , bipolar disorder , major depressive disorder , clinical psychology , medicine , mood , cognition , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , economics , macroeconomics
Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered a very effective tool for the treatment of psychiatric diseases, memory disturbances are among the most important adverse effects.