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The Assessment of Cerebral Dominance with Unilateral ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. T. C. Pratt  and
Elizabeth K. Warrington
R. T. C. Pratt
Affiliation:
The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, WC1N 3BG and Maida Vale, W9
Elizabeth K. Warrington
Affiliation:
The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, WC1N 3BG
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Extract

The growing adoption (1) of unilateral non-dominant ECT in place of the classical bilateral technique requires the accurate identification of the dominant hemisphere; the following simple method appears to be an improvement on those previously described (2) (3).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 562 , September 1972 , pp. 327 - 328
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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