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Electroconvulsive Treatment and Short Term Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. J. Stones
M. J. Stones*
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Metabolic Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield, S6 1TP
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Much of the recent work on electroconvulsive shock has been concerned with retrograde amnesia. These studies have generally produced results consistent with Ribot's Law (1885), which states that the susceptibility of a memory to impairment in retrograde amnesia bears an inverse relationship to the age of the trace (Chorover and Schiller, 1965; Kesner and D'Andrae, 1971).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 570 , May 1973 , pp. 591 - 594
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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