Maintenance ECT in Parkinson's disease.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has an anti-Parkinsonian effect. In two cases repeated single ECT, i.e. maintenance ECT (MECT), caused different, hitherto unreported positive effects. One patient had either severe mental side effects from higher L-dopa doses or intolerable parkinsonian symptoms on lower doses. MECT entailed a marked improvement in parkinsonian symptoms without mental side effects. Another patient with depression as well as Parkinson's disease who showed a slight improvement of motor symptoms after a series of ECT presented further anti-parkinsonian effects on MECT.
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Department of Neuroscience and Locomotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*