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Postictal Delirium (and Recovery From Melancholia) After Left-Unilateral ECT
Ismael Leechuy1, Richard Abrams
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, and North Chicago Veteran's Administration Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
Postictal delirium was observed after left-unilateral ECT in a fully dextral man whose melancholia entirely remitted with seven treatments. These findings suggest that it is premature to attribute either the syndrome of postictal delirium or the beneficial effects of ECT in melancholia primarily to right hemisphere mechanisms.