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Title: Depression and hemispheric functions: Changes associated with unilateral ECT.
Author: Kronfol, Ziad; Hamsher, K. D.; Digre, Kathleen; Waziri, Rafiq
Abstract:
Administered ECT to the dominant (left) side of 9 depressed patients (mean age, 48.3 yrs). Nine matched depressed patients (mean age, 50.2 yrs) received ECT to the nondominant (right) side. Degree of depression was assessed by the Self-Rating Depression S
Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry. 132, Jun 1978, 560-567