Electroconvulsive Therapy in Mania: Successful Outcome Despite Short Duration of Convulsions.
A duration of 25-30 s of convulsions in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is thought to be the minimum necessary for an adequate treatment. We describe three manic attacks in a 48-year-old patient resistant to psychotropic drugs who responded to successive courses of ECT, each with unusually short durations of seizures.
Hanin
Bella
B
Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Doar Na, Shimshon, Jerusalem, Israel.
Srour
Nasser
N
Margolin
Jaakov
J
Braun
Peter
P
Levitin
Arje-Leib
AL
Ritsner
Michael
M