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Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Elderly: New Findings in Geriatric Depression.
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- Racemic Ketamine as an Alternative to Electroconvulsive Therapy for Unipolar Depression: A Randomized, Open-Label, Non-Inferiority Trial (KetECT).The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Role of Ginkgo biloba extract as an adjunctive treatment of elderly patients with depression and on the expression of serum S100B.Medicine · 2018Trial
- Depression and apathy in frontotemporal dementia: a short assessment of facts and outlook.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: Bridging mechanisms, management, and emerging innovations.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Review
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Induces Dopaminergic Axon Regeneration, Corticostriatal Remodeling, and Restoration of Motor Function in Parkinsonian Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Adherence to clinical practice guidelines for using electroconvulsive therapy in elderly depressive patients.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Trends in Electroconvulsive Therapy Utilization in South Korea: Health Insurance Review Data From 2008 to 2018.Psychiatry investigation · 2024Article
- Understanding the Patient Landscape: A Ten-Year Retrospective Examination of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Romania's Largest Psychiatric Hospital.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Understanding depression with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a short assessment of facts and perceptions.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024Review
- Role of stimulus dose on neuropsychological functioning after electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- How electroconvulsive therapy works in the treatment of depression: is it the seizure, the electricity, or both?Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Adverse drug reactions in geriatric psychiatry-retrospective cohort study of a 6-year period.Irish journal of medical science · 2023Article
- Depression in dementia with Lewy bodies: a critical update.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy leads to improvement of cerebral glucose hypometabolism in frontotemporal dementia with comorbid psychotic depression - a case report.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Antioxidant Biomolecules and Their Potential for the Treatment of Difficult-to-Treat Depression and Conventional Treatment-Resistant Depression.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Outcomes reported in randomised controlled trials of major depressive disorder in older adults: protocol for a methodological review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy as a potential first-choice treatment in treatment-resistant depression (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Review
- Clozapine: Why Is It So Uniquely Effective in the Treatment of a Range of Neuropsychiatric Disorders?Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Late Life Depression: The Essentials and the Essential Distinctions.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
- Major Depressive Disorder in Older Patients as an Inflammatory Disorder: Implications for the Pharmacological Management of Geriatric Depression.Drugs & aging · 2021Review
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Abstract
This paper reviews recent research on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in elderly depressed patients. The PubMed database was searched for literature published within the past 4 years, using the search terms: "electroconvulsive elderly," "electroconvulsive geriatric," "ECT and elderly," and "ECT elderly cognition." The studies in this review indicate excellent efficacy for ECT in geriatric patients. Adverse cognitive effects of ECT in this population are usually transient and not typically severe. In addition, continuation/maintenance ECT (C/M-ECT) may be a favorable strategy for relapse prevention in the elderly after a successful acute course of ECT. ECT is an important treatment option for depressed geriatric patients with severe and/or treatment-resistant illness. New data add to the evidence demonstrating that ECT is a highly effective, safe, and well-tolerated antidepressant treatment option for geriatric patients.
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