Open AccessEvaluation of nonmemory cognitive parameters in psychiatric patients' pre- and post-electroconvulsive therapy: An observational study
Author(s) -
Jyoti Prakash,
Kalpana Srivastava,
Pradeep Manandhar,
Anupam Saha
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.181723
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , cognition , observational study , psychology , affect (linguistics) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , communication
Possibility of cognitive side effects has made electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) questionable. Variable deficits have been debated in memory cognition. Pattern of changes in nonmemory cognition pre- and post-ECT is not clear.