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Convulsive therapy

Known as: Therapy, Convulsive, therapy shock, Shock therapy 
Convulsions induced in order to treat MENTAL DISORDERS. It is used primarily in the treatment of severe affective disorders and SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Circulatory mechanisms of shock and their mediators.
Traditional concepts of shock therapy have been based on conventional monitoring. However, the availability of invasive… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Electroconvulsive shock therapy and maximum binding of platelet tritiated imipramine binding in depression.
We studied the tritiated imipramine binding values in platelets from 12 hospitalized untreated patients with endogenous… 
1974
1974
Antidepressant effects of unilateral electric convulsive shock therapy.
Zung depression ratings were obtained from three groups of depressed patients before and after two electric convulsive shock… 
1971
1971
Memory Changes After Unilateral and Bilateral Convulsive Therapy (ECT)
Memory deficit persists as the principal undesirable side effect of convulsive therapy. In an attempt to minimize this deficit… 
Review
1968
Review
1968
Shock and its effect on the cell.
Formerly the clinician diagnosed and treated the shock complex on the basis of hemodynamic principles. For example, subjective… 
1966
1966
Direct current shock therapy of cardiac arrhythmias.
Direct current shock therapy of cardiac arrhythmias was 
1958
1958
The Nature and Effectiveness of Correctional Techniques
The criminological and penological literature contains two principal conceptions of "correctional techniques." The older… 
1955
1955
SPONTANEOUS SEIZURES AND RELATED ELECTROENCEPHALO‐GRAPHIC FINDINGS FOLLOWING SHOCK THERAPY
1948
1948
Memory functioning in patients treated with electric shock therapy.
1939
1939
TRAUMATIC COMPLICATIONS OF CONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY: METHOD OF PREVENTING FRACTURES OF THE SPINE AND LOWER EXTREMITIES
Convulsive shock therapy has been employed for several years in the treatment of severe psychoses without sufficient attention… 
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