Electroconvulsive Therapy-Related Anxiety: Treat or Threat?

Jasmien Obbels1, Esmée Verwijk, Filip Bouckaert

  • 1Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Kortenberg, Belgium jasmien.obbels@upckuleuven.be Departments of Medical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Academic Medical Center; Department of Psychology, Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam and ECT Department, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation and Old Age Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Kortenberg, Belgium Academic Center for ECT and Neuromodulation, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Kortenberg, Belgium.

The Journal of ECT
|May 17, 2018
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