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Bifrontal ECT for drug-induced psychosis in Parkinson′s disease

Author(s) -

Kesavan Muralidharan,

Rohini Thimmaiah,

Vaskar Chakraborty,

Sanjeev Jain

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

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 - 10.4103/0019-5545.82549

Subject(s) - psychosis , clozapine , electroconvulsive therapy , parkinson's disease , adverse effect , psychiatry , motor symptoms , disease , psychology , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)

Psychosis has been documented to occur during treatment for idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). This case report describes an elderly male who developed psychosis during the course of treatment for idiopathic PD. He was treated with clozapine but experienced significant adverse effects without clinical improvement. He was prescribed bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy (BF-ECT). Here, we report the efficacy of BF-ECT in treating psychosis and motor symptoms in PD, without producing cognitive side effects in an elderly male.

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