title: Evaluation of nonmemory cognitive parameters in psychiatric patients' pre- and post-electroconvulsive therapy: An observational study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Possibility of cognitive side effects has made electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) questionable. Variable deficits have been debated in memory cognition. Pattern of changes in nonmemory cognition pre- and post-ECT is not clear.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty patients undergoing ECT were studied on nonmemory cognitive parameters before ECT, after a course of ECT, and after 4 weeks of last. ECT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nonmemory cognition improved during the course of ECT and over 4 weeks of ECT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ECT does not affect the nonmemory cognition adversely.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Command Hospital Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Kalpana
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manandhar
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Amitabh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saha
keywords: Cognition; electroconvulsive therapy; nonmemory