Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patient with Treatment-Resistant Paranoid Schizophrenia and Comorbid Epilepsy
The treatment of choice for acute schizophrenia is antipsychotic drug treatment and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and should only be considered as an option for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, where treatment with clozapine has already proven ineffective or intolerable. The use of ECT as a main...
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Main Authors: | Beppe Micallef-Trigona, Joseph Spiteri |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2012-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Psychiatry |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/374752 |
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