title: Monitoring Electroconvulsive Therapy by Galvanic Skin Response.
abstract: Galvanic skin response (GSR) was assessed during 10 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) sessions with five patients to evaluate its clinical utility in monitoring ECT-induced seizures. While GSR change was consistently observed in all instances, its duration persisted far longer than did seizure activity as measured by observed tonic-clonic movements. Accordingly, and in contrast to a prior report, GSR cannot be recommended as an accurate and reliable method of monitoring ECT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Barry H.
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Guze
authors.forename: Edward H.
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Liston
authors.forename: Asenath
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: La Rue