Electroconvulsive therapy / Richard Abrams.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abrams, Richard, 1937- author.

Series:

• Oxford scholarship online.
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Electroconvulsive therapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford Unversity Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New material for this edition includes coverage of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force Report on ECT (which lays out the boundaries within which ECT should be administered in the US) and a new chapter on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

Contents:

• Contents; 1. History of Electroconvulsive Therapy; 2. Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy; 3. Prediction of Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy; 4. The Medical Physiology of Electroconvulsive Therapy; 5. Electroconvulsive Therapy in the High-Risk Patient; 6. The Electroconvulsive Therapy Stimulus, Seizure Induction, and Seizure Quality; 7. Treatment Electrode Placement: Bitemporal, Unilateral, Bifrontal; 8. Technique of Electroconvulsive Therapy: Theory; 9. Technique of Electroconvulsive Therapy: Praxis; 10. Memory and Cognitive Functioning After Electroconvulsive Therapy
• 11. Neurobiological Correlates and Mechanisms12. Patients' Attitudes, Medicolegal Considerations, and Informed Consent; 13. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy (TMS); References; Index

Notes:

• Previous edition: 1997.
• Previously issued in print: 2002.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

• 9780190287405
• 0190287403
• 9780197706435
• 0197706436
• 9780198033783
• 0198033788

OCLC:

476026293