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The Effect of Electro-Convulsive Therapy on Spinal Fluid Constituents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Samuel Eiduson ,
Norman Q. Brill  and
Evelyn Crumpton
Samuel Eiduson
Affiliation:
From the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Medical Center, University of California at Los Angeles
Norman Q. Brill
Affiliation:
From the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Medical Center, University of California at Los Angeles
Evelyn Crumpton
Affiliation:
From the Neurobiochemistry Laboratory, Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Medical Center, University of California at Los Angeles
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During the course of an investigation of the effectiveness of various components of electric convulsive therapy in the treatment of hospitalized psychiatric patients (Brill et al., 1957, 1959) observations were made on the spinal fluid concentrations of cations and total protein before and after treatment. The possibility existed that alterations in brain function and structure (which are believed by many to occur during a course of electro-convulsive treatment, and to be responsible for improvement in patients receiving such treatment) might be associated with, or reflected by measurable changes in the cerebral spinal fluid.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 443 , April 1960 , pp. 692 - 698
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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