Open AccessClinical profile and outcome of bipolar disorder patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy: A study from north India
Author(s) -
Vineet Bharadwaj,
Sandeep Grover,
Subho Chakrabarti,
Ajit Avasthi,
Natasha Kate
Publication year - 2012
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 - 10.4103/0019-5545.94644
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , mania , bipolar disorder , depression (economics) , psychiatry , adverse effect , medicine , psychology , pediatrics , clinical psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , lithium (medication) , economics , macroeconomics
Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used quite frequently among the bipolar patients in developing countries, very little data are available with regard to its effectiveness from the developing countries.