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Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy
BACKGROUND: No electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) study on humans or in animal models has so far examined whether differently composed electrical stimuli exert different cardiac electrophysiological effects at constant electrical dose. The subject is important because cardiac electrophysiological chang...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5914257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_88_18 |
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author | Singh, Nagendra Madan Sathyaprabha, T. N. Thirthalli, Jagadisha Andrade, Chittaranjan |
author_facet | Singh, Nagendra Madan Sathyaprabha, T. N. Thirthalli, Jagadisha Andrade, Chittaranjan |
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description | BACKGROUND: No electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) study on humans or in animal models has so far examined whether differently composed electrical stimuli exert different cardiac electrophysiological effects at constant electrical dose. The subject is important because cardiac electrophysiological changes may provide indirect information about ECT seizure quality as modulated by stimulus composition. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Adult female Wistar rats (n = 20/group) received fixed, moderately suprathreshold (18 mC) electrical stimuli. This stimulus in each of eight groups was formed by varying pulse amplitude, pulse width, pulse frequency, and stimulus duration. The electrocardiogram was recorded, and time and frequency domain variables were examined in 30 s epochs in preictal (30 s before electroconvulsive shock [ECS]), early postictal (starting 15 s after stimulation), and late postictal (5 h after ECS) periods. Alpha for statistical significance was set at P < 0.01 to adjust for multiple hypothesis testing. RESULTS: Cardiac electrophysiological indices in the eight groups did not differ significantly at baseline. At both early and late postictal time points, almost no analysis yielded statistically significant differences between groups for four time domain variables, including heart rate and standard deviation of R-R intervals, and for six frequency domain variables, including low-frequency power, high-frequency power, and total power. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac electrophysiological measures may not be helpful to identify differences in seizure quality that are driven by differences in the composition of electrical stimuli at constant, moderately suprathreshold electrical dose. The generalization of this conclusion to threshold electrical doses and to human contexts requires a study. |
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spelling | pubmed-59142572018-05-07 Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy Singh, Nagendra Madan Sathyaprabha, T. N. Thirthalli, Jagadisha Andrade, Chittaranjan Indian J Psychiatry Original Article BACKGROUND: No electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) study on humans or in animal models has so far examined whether differently composed electrical stimuli exert different cardiac electrophysiological effects at constant electrical dose. The subject is important because cardiac electrophysiological changes may provide indirect information about ECT seizure quality as modulated by stimulus composition. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Adult female Wistar rats (n = 20/group) received fixed, moderately suprathreshold (18 mC) electrical stimuli. This stimulus in each of eight groups was formed by varying pulse amplitude, pulse width, pulse frequency, and stimulus duration. The electrocardiogram was recorded, and time and frequency domain variables were examined in 30 s epochs in preictal (30 s before electroconvulsive shock [ECS]), early postictal (starting 15 s after stimulation), and late postictal (5 h after ECS) periods. Alpha for statistical significance was set at P < 0.01 to adjust for multiple hypothesis testing. RESULTS: Cardiac electrophysiological indices in the eight groups did not differ significantly at baseline. At both early and late postictal time points, almost no analysis yielded statistically significant differences between groups for four time domain variables, including heart rate and standard deviation of R-R intervals, and for six frequency domain variables, including low-frequency power, high-frequency power, and total power. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac electrophysiological measures may not be helpful to identify differences in seizure quality that are driven by differences in the composition of electrical stimuli at constant, moderately suprathreshold electrical dose. The generalization of this conclusion to threshold electrical doses and to human contexts requires a study. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5914257/ /pubmed/29736058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_88_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Singh, Nagendra Madan Sathyaprabha, T. N. Thirthalli, Jagadisha Andrade, Chittaranjan Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title | Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title_full | Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title_fullStr | Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title_short | Effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
title_sort | effects of electrical stimulus composition on cardiac electrophysiology in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5914257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_88_18 |
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