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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 4:330-334, November 1996
© 1996 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
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CLINICAL AND RESEARCH REPORT

Efficacy of ECT for Agitation in Dementia

A Case Report

Sharon K. Holmberg, Ph.D., Pierre N. Tariot, M.D., and Roopa Challapalli, M.D.

Departments of Medicine and Nursing, St.

A patient with vascular dementia had severe, unremitting agitation that was refractory to conventional therapies and put her life in jeopardy. She had a dramatic response to bilateral electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), with longitudinal follow-up demonstrating that her behavioral symptoms lapsed predictably when maintenance ECT was delayed.




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