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Time Course of Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Changes after Electroconvulsive Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

A. I. F. Scott ,
R. H. B. Douglas ,
A. Whitfield  and
R. E. Kendell
A. I. F. Scott*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
R. H. B. Douglas
Affiliation:
NMR Imaging Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
A. Whitfield
Affiliation:
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
R. E. Kendell
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
*
∗University Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance images of the non-dominant cerebral hemisphere were obtained in 20 unipolar depressed patients immediately before and 25 minutes after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). T1 values rose about 1 %. Repeated scanning up to 24 hours after ECT was carried out in 13 of these patients. The greatest change in magnetic resonance images was two hours after ECT, and thereafter images gradually returned to baseline values. There was no correlation between magnetic resonance changes and the time taken to become re-orientated after ECT.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 4 , April 1990 , pp. 551 - 553
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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