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Electroconvulsive therapy in a patient with severe tic and major depressive episode
N R Swerdlow1, M Gierz, A Berkowitz
1Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A patient with a disabling tic and a major depressive episode responded partially to phenelzine, but relapsed after medication was withdrawn because of hypertensive and hepatotoxic reactions. The patient's motor and affective symptoms resolved after electroconvulsive therapy, and he remains asymptomatic after 1 year.