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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 206-209 |
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Evaluation of nonmemory cognitive parameters in psychiatric patients' pre- and post-electroconvulsive therapy: An observational study
Jyoti Prakash1, Kalpana Srivastava2, Pradeep Manandhar2, Amitabh Saha2
1 Department of Psychiatry, Command Hospital Eastern Command, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Jyoti Prakash
Command Hospital Eastern Command, Alipore, Kolkata - 700 027, West Bengal
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0972-6748.181723
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Introduction: Possibility of cognitive side effects has made electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) questionable. Variable deficits have been debated in memory cognition. Pattern of changes in nonmemory cognition pre- and post-ECT is not clear.
Methodology: Forty patients undergoing ECT were studied on nonmemory cognitive parameters before ECT, after a course of ECT, and after 4 weeks of last. ECT.
Results: Nonmemory cognition improved during the course of ECT and over 4 weeks of ECT.
Conclusions: ECT does not affect the nonmemory cognition adversely. |
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