Convulsive therapy in schizophrenia?

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Serum Prolaci'in Level Aeter Electro- Convulsive Therapy, in States of Depression and Schizophrenia

20 depressive patients (Major type) and 13 schizophrenic patients were studied a s regards the quantitative rise of serum prolactin ifollowing electro-convulsive therapy. 4 of the schizophrenic group were given neuroleptics before E.C.T. Serum prolactin increased 9.6 times its basal level in depressive patients, 6.9 times in schizophrenia without medication, after E.C.T. In schizophrenics who r...

Ect in Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia

We read with interest the report on efficacy of electro convulsive therapy (ECT) in treatment resistant schizophrenia (Goswami et al 2003). A substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia remain resistant to treatment. Hence a need for additional/alternative treatments in such situations is strongly felt by psychiatrists. Authors' effort to address this issue is therefore timely and wel...

E.c.t. Induced Catationia: a Case Report

For a long time catatonic signs were considered to be the specific features of schizophrenia (Vogdt 1958). It soon became clear that such features may occur in functional psychoses other than schizophrenia and in fact, may even be more common in affective psychosis than schizophrenia (Abram & Taylor 1976). Apart from functional disorders like schizophrenia, affective psychosis and hysteria, a c...

Convulsive Status Epilepticus After Electroconvulsive Therapy

Status epilepticus is a very rare complication of electroconvulsive therapy. A case of a 58-year old patient with catatonic schizophrenia is reported who developed a status epilepticus after ECT. At a neurological critical care unit the status finally could be stopped. The origin of the epileptic status lastly remained unclear (German J Psychiatry 2013; 16(2): 81-83).

Neuroleptics and the natural course of schizophrenia.

To determine if neuroleptic treatment changes the natural course of schizophrenia, 22 studies were reviewed in which relatively similar patients were or were not given neuroleptics at specific times during the course of their illness. Nineteen of the studies were from first- or predominantly first-break populations. While there was little consensus among the authors of the studies reviewed, a r...