Am J Psychiatry 1991; 148:929-932
Copyright © 1991 by American Psychiatric Association
Absence of cognitive impairment after more than 100 lifetime ECT treatments
DP Devanand, AK Verma, F Tirumalasetti and HA Sackeim
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program, New York State Office of Mental Health, Willard Psychiatric Center.
The cognitive function scores and subjective memory complaints of eight
patients who had each received more than 100 treatments with bilateral
modified since wave ECT were equivalent to those of matched patients who
had never received ECT. The results suggest that patients given many ECT
treatments over several courses do not manifest measurable cognitive
impairment at long-term follow-up.
