Open AccessBifrontal 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/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.