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Unilateral ECT as a Test for Cerebral Dominance, with a Strategy for Treating Left-handers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. T. C. Pratt ,
Elizabeth K. Warrington  and
A. M. Halliday
R. T. C. Pratt
Affiliation:
The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, W.C.1 and Maida Vale, W.9
Elizabeth K. Warrington
Affiliation:
The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, W.C.1
A. M. Halliday
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council; National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, W.C.1
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The growing adoption of ECT given unilaterally to the right hemisphere in right-handed patients, in preference to the classical bilateral treatment, is due to its shortening of the duration of post-treatment confusion, to its superiority in preserving memory and learning assessed three months after the start of treatment (Halliday et al., 1968) and to its therapeutic equivalence. (For a critical assessment of published results, see d'Elia, 1970.)

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 548 , July 1971 , pp. 79 - 83
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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