[Electroconvulsive therapy for neurological disorders].
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recovers the brain function through generalized convulsion induced by electrical stimulation of the brain. While the primary targets of ECT are psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder, it has been well documented that ECT has therapeutic effects on muscular rigidity of Parkinson's disease and neuroleptics-induced malignant syndrome. Recently we demonstrated that ECT reduces intractable pain and allodynia associated with deafferentation pain disorders by recovering the function of the thalamic nucleus. ECT, if applied on appropriate clinical assessments, may contribute to the therapeutics of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Doi
Nagafumi
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Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Sameshima
Tatsuo
T
Suwa
Hiroshi
H
Mera
Hitoshi
H
Nagao
Takehiko
T
Yokochi
Masayuki
M
Nakamura
Mitsuru
M
Isse
Kunihiro
K
D000368:Aged; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000628:therapy; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000628:therapy