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Bifrontal Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Elderly

John Little, Martin Atkins, Jo Munday, Gordon Lyall, Dennis Greene, Graeme Chubb, Michelle Orr

Journal of Ect · 2004 · 14 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

BF ECT was found to be clinically effective and associated with cognitive side effects in elderly patients who were experiencing a depressive episode of either unipolar or bipolar origin.

References

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Harold A. Sackeïm, Joan Prudic, D. P. Devanand et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 933 citations · Full text

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-blind Comparison of Bilateral and Right Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy at Different Stimulus Intensities

Harold A. Sackeïm, Joan Prudic, D. P. Devanand et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry · 2000 · 798 citations

Titrated Moderately Suprathreshold vs Fixed High-Dose Right Unilateral Electroconvulsive Therapy

W. Vaughn McCall, David M. Reboussin, Richard D. Weiner et al. · Archives of General Psychiatry · 2000 · 337 citations

Comparison of Bifrontal and Bitemporal ECT for Major Depression

Samuel H. Bailine, Arthur Rifkin, Ernst Kayne et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 2000 · 188 citations

Therapeutic advantage of bifrontal electrode placement in ECT

F. J. J. Letemendia, Nicholas J. Delva, Martin Rodenburg et al. · Psychological Medicine · 1993 · 152 citations