Association of treatment facets, severity of manic symptoms, psychomotor disturbances and psychotic features with response to electroconvulsive therapy in bipolar depression.

Conclusion: Bipolar depressive patients with severe psychomotor disturbances, mood-congruent delusions and severe mixed features are highly responsive to ECT. A significant improvement in response prediction is expected when considering those clinical characteristics. PMID: 32490697 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry - June 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Brancati GE, Tripodi B, Novi M, Barbuti M, Medda P, Perugi G Tags: World J Biol Psychiatry Source Type: research