title: Positive Response to Bilateral Sinusoidal ECT in Unilateral and Bilateral Brief-pulse "ECT-Resistant" Depressive Illness.
abstract: Six patients who failed to respond to what would ordinarily be considered therapeutically effective courses of sequential unilateral nondominant (mean number 10) and bilateral brief-pulse electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) (mean number 10) with electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring of seizure duration (all seizures >30 s) subsequently received courses of bilateral sinusoidal ECT (mean number 6) and responded well. Some theoretical implications and clinical considerations raised by these cases are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Trevor R. P.
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Thomas W.
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: McAllister
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peltier
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kraft