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C. Edward Coffey1, Richard D. Weiner, W. Vaughn McCall
1Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine (Neurology), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|January 1, 1987
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A depressed woman with multiple sclerosis was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy without any adverse effects to her neurologic status. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain was performed before and after the course of therapy and revealed no change in the white matter lesions visualized on spin-echo images.
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