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Failure to Convulse with Electroconvulsive Therapy

A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Sharpe  and
Bernice Andrew
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Abstract

A case is reported of a severely depressed patient in whom treatment with electroconvulsive therapy was abandoned because of repeated failure to induce a convulsion. Reasons for the failure to convulse and alternative treatment approaches are discussed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 134 - 136
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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