Long-Term Cognitive and Psychological Functioning in Post–Electroconvulsive Therapy Patients

Conclusions For some ECT patients, memory, cognitive functioning, and decreases in depressive symptoms can remain intact and stable even several years after ECT. However, the selective sampling at follow-up makes these results difficult to generalize to all post-ECT patients. Future research should examine what variables may predict stable cognitive functioning and a decline in psychiatric symptoms after ECT.
Source: The Journal of ECT - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research