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Organic Stupor Subsequent to a Severe Head Injury Treated with E.C.T.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Maurice Silverman*
Affiliation:
Blackburn Group of Hospitals

Extract

Roth and Rosie (1953) discussed the beneficial effect of E.C.T. in a wide range of psychoses complicated by clouding of consciousness, including syndromes of frankly organic origin. The treatment has been used effectively for psychotic symptoms in G.P.I. (Ewald and Haddenbrock, 1942; Bini, 1947; Solomon et al., 1948; Yaskin, 1948; Kalinowsky, 1949; Lopez Ibor, 1950), pellagra and pernicious anaemia (Fernandes and Polonio, 1946). It is perhaps not surprising that a search through the literature has failed to bring to light a case of stupor subsequent to a head injury being treated with E.C.T.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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