A structured interview was used to elicit 35 depressed patients' reports
of memory function after a full course of either bilateral or unilateral
ECT. The interviewer and patients were blind to the type of electrode
placement. Although the two groups of subjects did not differ in severity
of depression or amount of ECT, significantly more patients receiving
bilateral ECT reported general difficulty remembering things, difficulty
describing events before hospitalization, and difficulty remembering daily
events.
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