| Reversible Dementia and Affective Disorder: The Rip Van Winkle Syndrome. | |
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PMID: 11941215 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The diagnostic separation of the reversible dementia of an affective disorder from the dementia secondary to structural brain pathology remains a clinical challenge. A 58-year-old woman had been diagnosed as having Alzheimer's dementia for 9 years before antidepressant treatment with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) resolved the dementia syndrome. The patient has functioned well for 8 years on maintenance treatment with lithium, with ECT given every 7-8 weeks. By the summer of 1993, she had undergone 132 ECT. Until specific and reliable pre-morbid tests for the diagnosis of irreversible dementias of the Alzheimer's and multiinfarct types are developed, antidepressant treatment trials are encouraged in elderly patients with a dementia syndrome. Extensive maintenance ECT schedules are safe. |
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Lory E. Bright-Long; Max Fink |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Convulsive therapy Volume: 9 ISSN: 0749-8055 ISO Abbreviation: Convuls Ther Publication Date: 1993 |
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Created Date: 2002-Apr-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8506311 Medline TA: Convuls Ther Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 209-216 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and the Psychiatric Service, University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York, USA. |
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