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Electroconvulsive Therapy and Depression

I. the Prognostic Significance of Clinical Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Mendels
J. Mendels*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. Carolina, U.S.A.
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Since its introduction by Cerletti and Bini in 1938 electroconvulsive therapy has become a major bulwark of therapy in psychiatric practice. Until a few years ago, before the introduction of the psychotropic drugs, it was the commonest method of physical treatment employed in psychiatry.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 477 , August 1965 , pp. 675 - 681
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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