ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY

Depression in prepubertal age group is a relatively rare condition. The presence of life threatening catatonic features call for aggressive treatment. Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) has been described to be effective in these circumstances; however, doubts have been raised about its safety profile...

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Autores principales: Thakur, Anupam, Dutta, S., Jagadheesan, K., Sinha, Vinod Kumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407888
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author Thakur, Anupam
Dutta, S.
Jagadheesan, K.
Sinha, Vinod Kumar
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description Depression in prepubertal age group is a relatively rare condition. The presence of life threatening catatonic features call for aggressive treatment. Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) has been described to be effective in these circumstances; however, doubts have been raised about its safety profile. This present case study illustrates the efficacy and safety of ECT in prepubertal catatonia.
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spelling pubmed-29562492011-03-15 ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY Thakur, Anupam Dutta, S. Jagadheesan, K. Sinha, Vinod Kumar Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Depression in prepubertal age group is a relatively rare condition. The presence of life threatening catatonic features call for aggressive treatment. Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) has been described to be effective in these circumstances; however, doubts have been raised about its safety profile. This present case study illustrates the efficacy and safety of ECT in prepubertal catatonia. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2956249/ /pubmed/21407888 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Thakur, Anupam
Dutta, S.
Jagadheesan, K.
Sinha, Vinod Kumar
ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title_full ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title_fullStr ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title_full_unstemmed ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title_short ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY IN PRE-PUBERTAL CATATONIA: A CASE STUDY
title_sort electro convulsive therapy in pre-pubertal catatonia: a case study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407888
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