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Case report of lateralized affective states immediately after ECT

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.1.129

Dysphoric states were observed in a patient immediately after right unilateral and bilateral ECT, while euphoric states followed left unilateral ECT, suggesting that disruption of lateralized neural mechanisms may have been involved in the pathophysiology of the affective states.

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