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Pupillary Response as Assessment of Effective Seizure Induction by Electroconvulsive Therapy
Published on: April 11, 2019
Rapid Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review
Duy V Tran1, Justin P Meyer, Kate G Farber
1From the *University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; †The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; and ‡Cornell University, New York, NY.
Abstract:
Although a typical course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) consists of 6 to 12 treatments, remission of depression has rarely been reported after a single treatment. We present the case of a 25-year-old woman hospitalized for a major depressive episode and suicidality, in the context of bipolar 1 disorder, whose symptoms fully remitted with 1 ECT. We also review the literature on rapid response to ECT.

