title: Stability of intellectual functioning during maintenance electroconvulsive therapy.
abstract: We describe the stability of neuropsychologic testing in a 16-year-old boy with cerebellar dysgenesis who received 61 acute and maintenance electroconvulsive therapy treatments for malignant catatonia. Measures of nonverbal intelligence and visual memory before treatment onset and after 61 electroconvulsive therapy treatments indicated no evidence of decline in intellectual functioning and acute or delayed memory. This case offers further support for the safety and efficacy of maintenance electroconvulsive therapy in both pediatric and developmentally disabled populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 707 North Broadway Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Wachtel@kennedykrieger.org
authors.forename: Lee E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Wachtel
authors.forename: Dirk M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Dhossche
authors.forename: Irving M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Reti
authors.forename: Roxanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hughes-Wheatland
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002389:Catatonia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D016896:Treatment Outcome