Antidepressant and Neurocognitive Effects of Isoflurane Anesthesia versus Electroconvulsive Therapy in Refractory Depression

BACKGROUND: Many patients have serious depression that is nonresponsive to medications, but refuse electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Early research suggested that isoflurane anesthesia may be an effective alternative to ECT. Subsequent studies altered drug, dose or number of treatments, and failed to...

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Autores principales: Weeks, Howard R., Tadler, Scott C., Smith, Kelly W., Iacob, Eli, Saccoman, Mikala, White, Andrea T., Landvatter, Joshua D., Chelune, Gordon J., Suchy, Yana, Clark, Elaine, Cahalan, Michael K., Bushnell, Lowry, Sakata, Derek, Light, Alan R., Light, Kathleen C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069809

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069809

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