Prediction of ECT Response in Melancholia.
None of 15 individual Hamilton depression scale items obtained at baseline, or five depression factors derived therefrom, significantly predicted an adjusted posttreatment Hamilton depression score after six unilateral or bilateral ECTs in a sample of 47 melancholic men. Excluding patients with nonmelancholic syndromes from ECT samples attenuates the previously reported predictive value of individual or grouped clinical psychopathological features of depression.
Abrams
Richard
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School and North Chicago Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Vedak
Chadragupta
C