Tuesday 23 June 2009

ECT Treatment for Bipolar Disorder

A Belgian study in the journal Bipolar Disorders compared the treatment of Bipolar Disorder and Unipolar patients with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The researchers concluded after monitoring 64 patients that although, as previously known, there were no differences in treatment outcome, bipolar patients responded faster than unipolar.

To read this article in depth go to:
http://www.medwire-news.md/47/83101/Psychiatry/ECT_response_quicker_in_bipolar_versus_unipolar_depression.html

To view the abstract:
Bipolar Disorders. 2009; 11(4):418-24

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