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A Comparison of the Effects on Depression and Memory of Bilateral E.C.T. and Unilateral E.C.T. to the Dominant and Non-Dominant Hemispheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. M. Halliday ,
K. Davison ,
M. W. Browne  and
L. C. Kreeger
A. M. Halliday
Affiliation:
National Hospital, Queen Square, London. Member of the External Staff of the Medical Research Council
K. Davison
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne. National Hospital, Queen Square, London
M. W. Browne
Affiliation:
Brookwood Hospital, Woking, Surrey. Netherne Hospital
L. C. Kreeger
Affiliation:
Halliwick Hospital, London. Westminster and Netherne Hospitals
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Four years after E.C.T. was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini (1938), Friedman and Wilcox (1942) investigated the effect of unilateral E.C.T. in eleven psychotic patients, using a pair of electrodes on the vertex and on the left temple above the ear (or, in one case, the left frontal region). Since that time there have been a number of published reports of the effect of administering E.C.T. unilaterally, using a variety of electrode placements and shock parameters, some limited to the supposedly non-dominant right side of the head (Goldman, 1949; Lancaster, Steinert and Frost, 1958; Cannicott, 1962; Bilikiewicz and Krzyzowski, 1964; Dolenz, 1964; Martin, Ford, McDanald and Towler, 1965; Impastato and Karliner, 1966; Cannicott and Waggoner, 1967), others comparing right- and left-sided treatment (Blaurock, Lorimer, Segal and Gibbs, 1950; Pacella and Impastato, 1954; Zamora and Kaelbling, 1965; Gottlieb and Wilson, 1965).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 513 , August 1968 , pp. 997 - 1012
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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