Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:129-131
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Case report of lateralized affective states immediately after ECT
P Decina, HA Sackeim, I Prohovnik, S Portnoy and S Malitz
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.