Am J Psychiatry 1984; 141:1071-1074
Copyright © 1984 by American Psychiatric Association
Differential memory complaints after bilateral and unilateral ECT
J Rosenberg and HM Pettinati
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.
