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A Case of Treatment- resistant Depression and Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Role of Electroconvulsive Therapy Revisited.

Ram S Mahato, Maria Chona P San Gabriel, Carrol T Longshore, David B Schnur

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Article in Innovations in clinical neuroscience. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ram S MahatoThe authors are with the Department of Psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst, New York.
Maria Chona P San GabrielThe authors are with the Department of Psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst, New York.
Carrol T LongshoreThe authors are with the Department of Psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst, New York.
David B SchnurThe authors are with the Department of Psychiatry at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst, New York.
Elmhurst Hospital Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Body dysmorphic disorder is a common, often disabling condition, and is frequently comorbid with major depressive disorder. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors constitute first line set of somatic interventions but the management of refractory patients remains challenging. Electroconvulsive therapy, an often highly beneficial treatment for medication resistant-depression, is not considered an effective therapeutic alternative for treatment refractory body dysmorphic disorder. Here we present a 50-year-old woman with body dysmorphic disorder and comorbid major depressive disorder who remained incapacitated and suicidal despite several trials with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and antipsychotic medication. Depressive and dysmorphic symptoms appeared to resolve with electroconvulsive therapy, and remission was sustained for two months. Electroconvulsive therapy has an important place in the management of treatment- resistant depression associated with body dysmorphic disorder, and, in select cases, may be effective for dysmorphic symptoms as well.

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BDDbody dysmorphic disorderdepressionECTElectroconvulsive therapysuicide attempttreatmentresistant

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PMID27672487
PMCPMC5022988
OpenAlexW2981550873

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